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Financial incentives for adoption and kin guardianship improve achievement for foster children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Skallet, … - 2024
Difference-in-differences analysis of linked administrative data estimates effects of a Minnesota policy change that increased the payments to adoptive parents and kin guardians for children ages 6 and older, making them equal to what foster care payments were, but didn't for younger children....
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement
Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
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Work versus school? : the effect of work on educational expenditures for children in Mexico
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2016
working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than … expenditure is directed towards goods that improve the quality of education. …
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Changing norms about gender inequality in education : evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Bordia Das, Maitreyi - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women … from the younger cohort being far more positive about female vs. male education of both children and adults. The effect of …
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Stigma in welfare programs
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022
Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...
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Timing of school entry and personality traits in adulthood
Barabasch, Anton; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Leibing, Andreas - 2024
This paper investigates the long-run consequences of a later school entry for personality traits. For identification, we exploit the statutory cutoff rules for school enrollment in Germany within a regression discontinuity design. We find that relatively older school starters have persistently...
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …
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Do pension benefits accelerate cognitive decline? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Hossain, Shahadat Md. - 2022
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural...
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