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Estimates of the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples
Plug, Erik - 2006
In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779063
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The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling : A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325043
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Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?
Booij, Adam S. - 2017
We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted and talented (GT) program with selective program admission based on past achievement. We construct three complementary estimates of the program's impact on student achievement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954056
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Enriching Students Pays Off : Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education
Booij, Adam S. - 2016
We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on a cutoff score in a cognitive aptitude test, which we exploit in a fuzzy regression discontinuity framework to identify program effects. We find that assigned students obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997446