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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … single period game in that informal aid is set according to an efficient rule. However, education is distorted upwards. In …

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A thousand cuts: cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement

Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022

We study how ambient lead exposure impacts learning in elementary school by leveraging a natural experiment where a large national automotive racing organization switched from leaded to unleaded fuel. We ﬁnd increased levels and duration of exposure to lead negatively aﬀect academic...

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The effects of computers on children's social development and school participation : evidence from a randomized control experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kalil, Ariel - 2016

Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...

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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 in...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012

Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013

capability for building an education delivery mechanism focused on outcomes. [Accountability Initiative]. URL …

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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The effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education

Dodlova, Marina; Escobar Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. The results are robust to alternative specifications and different measures of exposure to the earthquake. Our … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

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