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Parental Responses to Children's Achievement Test Results
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ho, Tiffany; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2021
We use quasi-experimental variation in the timing of national standardized test-score reports to estimate the causal impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced...
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Immigration background and the intergenerational correlation in education
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Nguyen, Trong-Ha - 2010
Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families … and is somewhat greater for NESB families. Finally, the greater importance that NESB mothers attribute to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271389
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Migrant youths' educational achievement: The role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286871
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Taking chances: the effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Chris; Sartbayeva, Anastasia - 2009
. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269361
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Financial stress, family conflict, and youths' successful transition to adult roles
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2009
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothers' reports of financial stresses and borrowing constraints are associated with earlier transitions to inactivity and public assistance, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269448
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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolas; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451260
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The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents
Antrobus, Emma; Baranov, Victoria; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2017
We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816508
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Parents' economic support of young-adult children: Do socioeconomic circumstances matter?
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gorgens, Tue - 2012
This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family's socioeconomic circumstances. We address this issue using detailed survey data on intergenerational co-residence and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282166
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Fathers and youth's delinquent behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286881
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Parents' Economic Support of Young-Adult Children: Do Socioeconomic Circumstances Matter?
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gorgens, Tue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family's socioeconomic circumstances. We address this issue using detailed survey data on intergenerational co-residence and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652101