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Teenage conduct problems: a lifetime of disadvantage in the labour market?

Parsons, Sam; Bryson, Alex; Sullivan, Alice Isabella - 2021

Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with conduct problems went on to spend fewer months both in paid employment, and in employment, education...

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Housing prices, unemployment rates, disadvantage, and progress toward a degree

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017

Rising unemployment and housing price appreciation are associated with increased college enrollment. Enrollment does not, however, guarantee completion. We use a discrete time, competing hazard function that accommodates individual-specific heterogeneity to assess the impact changing...

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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?

Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014

The international surveys of pupil achievement - PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS - have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on children's reports of family or home characteristics rather...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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Learning to participate in politics : evidence from Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2017

This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...

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School starting age and the social gradient in educational outcomes

Zhao, Yuejun; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2024

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement...

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Roma and bureaucrats : a field experiment on ethnic and socioeconomic discrimination

Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef - 2023

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

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The rank of socioeconomic status within a class and the incidence of school bullying and school absence

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2024

In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES) rank within a class on two critical factors affecting the accumulation of human capital: school bullying victimization and school absence. We identify the effect from the variation of a within-class SES rank...

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …

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