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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...

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School performance, score inflation and economic geography

Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017

We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...

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The effects of Vietnam-era military service on the long-term health of veterans: a bounds analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an instrumental variable (IV). We start by assessing whether the...

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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Parental preferences for primary school characteristics

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2014

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary...

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Charters without lotteries : testing takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; … - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective

Wang, Le - 2012

The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as … IV estimates using parental education as an IV, but a negligible impact on those using spousal education. Using the …. -- returns to education ; sample selection ; instrument variable estimation ; Chinese labor market …

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