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benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …
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migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children … of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since …
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This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects … on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of … children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability of having dissolved their relationship and a 7-13% lower labor …
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sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …
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and earnings for the students who are induced to choose Math after being exposed to the pilot scheme. The effect partly … stems from the fact that these students end up with higher education …
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inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …
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Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully … suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of …
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In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
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In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...
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We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one additional week of formal training on monthly earnings...
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