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The persistence of early childhood maturity : international evidence of long-run age effects
Bedard, Kelly; Dhuey, Elizabeth - In: The quarterly journal of economics 121 (2006) 4, pp. 1437-1472
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129878
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Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? : the impact of grandparents on children's academic performance
Wang, Sophie Xuefei; Bansak, Cynthia - 2022
This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254240
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Parental guidance and supervised learning
Lizzeri, Alessandro; Siniscalchi, Marciano - In: The quarterly journal of economics 123 (2008) 3, pp. 1161-1195
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764483
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Preschool television viewing and adolescent test scores : historical evidence from the Coleman Study
Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Shapiro, Jesse M. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 123 (2008) 1, pp. 279-323
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How large are the effects from changes in family environment? : a study of Korean American adoptees
Sacerdote, Bruce - In: The quarterly journal of economics 122 (2007) 1, pp. 119-157
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814374
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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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