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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised …
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May in France and Italy, we estimate child fixed effects models to analyze how the lockdown has affected children … boys, on kids attending kindergarten (in Italy) or secondary school (in France), and on children whose parents have a lower … methodologies, that has been much more common in Italy than in France, appears to significantly attenuate the negative impact on …
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analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …
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The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and...
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Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental...
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student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) students use the live streaming technology only punctually, apparently … low-ability students and increases achievement for high-ability ones and (iii) offering live streaming reduces in …
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schools that provides free individual tutoring online to disadvantaged students during lock-down. Tutors are university … students who volunteer for 3 to 6 hours per week. They were randomly assigned to middle school students, from a list of … potential beneficiaries compiled by school principals. Using original survey data collected from students, parents, teachers and …
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We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to … administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …
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, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income …
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