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parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …
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Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There...
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children of mothers who gave birth in their early twenties …
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parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …
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supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger … children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely … higher-income husbands. Likewise, there are no statistically significant responses among married men …
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in the likelihood of financial transfers from parents to children around the time of the move and a 70% increase in the … education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …
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We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women enter college in roughly equal numbers, but more women than men complete their degrees. Women...
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The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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