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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2021
on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for …
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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 - 2021
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316139
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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices
Felfe, Christina - 2016
programs or enable them access to higher education. Thus, a key question is how to get immigrant parents to provide their …Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … birthright citizenship in Germany caused immigrant parents to adapt their educational choices for their offspring. We employ a …
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly … development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000838
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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising the Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
Bauer, Philipp - 2009
children of better educated parents …
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The Effects of School Integration : Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program
Bergman, Peter - 2016
This paper studies the impact of a desegregation ruling on several medium-run outcomes. This ruling mandates that seven school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school students who apply to transfer from a nearby,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979105
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Falck, Oliver - 2015
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024687
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The Importance of School Systems : Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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