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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …
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We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many …. The availability of students' test scores as well as teachers' questionnaires for each of these domains allows me to … of teacher specialization in the specific science domain on students' results, equivalent to 1.7% of a standard deviation …
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are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people’s time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data...
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We measure time preferences in a sample of 561 children aged seven to eleven years. Using a within-subject design we …
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