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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards

Himmler, Oliver - 2009

Nationwide school choice and fixed per-student governmental funding provide incentives for Dutch schools to perform … well. Roughly one third of Dutch pre-university schools are of catholic denomination. Acknowledging this widely available … outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school …

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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...

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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations : Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles

Kießling, Lukas - 2019

This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely resembles actual wage differences, prevails across...

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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory...

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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

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Globalization, Gender, and the Family

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper shows that in the presence of labor market shocks, child-bearing and child-rearing have far-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee...

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony, availability of quasi-marriages such as PACS in France, and civil...

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...

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Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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