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link between house prices and the quality of local schools – and explains the nuances of the findings and their … significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
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Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to … type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …
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disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality of schooling that they provide. The findings suggest that disadvantaged … contexts impact on the organisation and processes of schools and that these effects differ significantly from one area to …
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Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes … but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health … extensive and intensive margins of education on mental health using various estimators. For all estimators, accounting for the …
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The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...
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correlation with unobserved school and neighborhood quality, i.e. the role of sorting into schools and neighborhoods of different …
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Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
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I investigate the effect of faculty quality on Ph.D. student outcomes. To address the endogeneity of faculty quality I use exogenous variation provided by the expulsion of mathematics professors in Nazi Germany. I find that faculty quality is a very important determinant of short and long run...
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rich province, whereas there is a bias in education spending against older girls in both provinces. These biases in …
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