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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262421
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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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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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A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal quantity-quality tradeoff, then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital, higher...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270570
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … idiosyncratic endowments in a way that suggests that parents have equal concerns, rather than efficiency motives, in allocating … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …
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