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the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers' health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …
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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and …
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We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …
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(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …
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By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and educational outcomes in that country. To do so, we apply...
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
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particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …
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world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and adoption of children. In this … paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are more hesitant to give feedback to homosexual parents during … children's pre-registration period in Spain. In order to do that, we designed an internet field experiment to be conducted in …
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This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
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