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A thousand cuts: cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement
Hollingsworth, Alex; Huang, Mike; Rudik, Ivan; Sanders, … - 2022
impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174120
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949069
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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 (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623990
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010182
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011
-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375249
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995
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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes
Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752998
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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014
data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350481
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434454