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attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of … (marginally) significant positive relationship between schooling and religiosity; religiosity is positively related to exposure to …Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church …
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tenuous relationship between a range of school inputs and cognitive achievement. Among others, the inability to establish a …'s interest in school has any bearing on educational success after controlling for the kinds of variables typically used in … prior interest in school has a bearing on future educational success. …
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We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …
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, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …
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Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … context of lower church participation, religiosity has acquired a more relevant meaning for demographic behavior. Among the …
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-dimensional nonparametric regression. We apply the proposed estimators to estimate the effects of summer school on the distribution of school …
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One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However …
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When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental …
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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