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Setting a good example? : examining sibling spillovers in educational achievement using a regression discontinuity design

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2019

We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...

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Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks : Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Mulhern, Christine - 2020

We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled...

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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...

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Early childcare duration and students' later outcomes in Europe

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...

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The effect of preferential admissions on the college participation of disadvantaged students : the role of pre-college choices

Tincani, Michela M.; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022

Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...

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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...

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Academic migration and academic networks : evidence from scholarly big data and the iron curtain

Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Paura - 2023

Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, a scholarly big data source, mapping of academics' networks is possible and information … anticipation of the fall of the Eastern Bloc and together with the data that offers unique rich information, identification is … two channels, the cost and signalling channel. The cost channel is how the network characteristic reduces or increases the …

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Sibling spillovers may enhance the efficacy of targeted school policies

Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2023

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of...

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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...

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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?

Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022

We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...

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