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Changing the Odds : Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention

Betts, Julian R.; Zau, Andrew C.; Bachofer, Karen Volz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four...

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The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime : Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program

Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public transportation tickets … and bursaries for postsecondary education. In this paper, we use a difference-in-differences approach that compares …

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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families

Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...

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The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone : Evidence from African-American Siblings in 1870–1940

Abramitzky, Ran; Conway, Jacob; Mill, Roy; Stein, Luke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population...

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Toxified to the Bone : Early-Life and Childhood Exposure to Lead and Men's Old-Age Mortality

Fletcher, Jason; Noghanibehambari, Hamid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

subpopulation and low socioeconomic status families, respectively. We also find reductions in education and socioeconomic standing …

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Economics of the family : marriage, children, and human capital ; a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Schultz, Theodore William (contributor); … - 1974

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Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Daysal, N. Meltem; Elder, Todd E.; Hellerstein, Judith K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find...

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The "College Gap" in Marriage and Children's Family Structure

Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

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Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children’s Educational Outcomes

Ginther, Donna K. - 2019

We find substantial and statistically significant detrimental effects of fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) on children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their...

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