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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831231
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128750
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health : Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon - 2011
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths
Gould, Eric D. - 2011
whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life - the education of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129934
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Why Children of College Graduates Outperform Their Schoolmates : A Study of Cousins and Adoptees
Haegeland, Torbjörn - 2010
Massive cross-sectional evidence exists indicating that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak. We examine a causal relationship using two approaches for identification within the same data: cousins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134988
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
Okumura, Tsunao - 2010
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents; to remedy this deficiency, we construct a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135823
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137511
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Heineck, Guido - 2010
It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental risk attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137521
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring : Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137786
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Intergenerational Transmission of Education : An Alert to Empirical Implementation
Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010
regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139956