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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

impacted on the elder sister’s teenage fertility. Our main result is that within families, teen births tend to be contagious …

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the … treatment schools), a financial incentive program was initiated to reduce absenteeism. Teachers were given a camera with a … attendance. A teacher’s salary was a direct function of his attendance. The remaining 60 schools served as comparison schools …

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighbourhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the neighborhood in terms of...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily … attendance. The teacher absence rate changed from 42 percent in the comparison schools to 21 percent in the treatment schools. To … different financial incentives. The program improved child learning: test scores in the treatment schools were 0.17 standard …

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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education also have...

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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital using Parental Deaths

Gould, Eric D; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of the …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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Part-Time Employment Traps and Childcare Policy

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We model educational investment, wages and employment status (full-time, part-time or non-participation) in a frictional world in which heterogeneous workers have different productivities, both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there might be under-employment and...

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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