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emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …
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We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010-2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...
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We investigate the effect of immigrants' marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in marriage behavior by a complete abolishment of spouse import for immigrants below 24 years of age....
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During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests)...
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103482
of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since … migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children …
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