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Parental Educational Investment and Children'S Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

Conley, Dalton; Glauber, Rebecca - 2021

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

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The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes

Schmitz, Lauren - 2016

This study examines whether draft-lottery estimates of the causal effect of Vietnam-era military service on schooling vary by genetic propensity toward educational attainment. To capture the complex genetic architecture that underlies the bio-developmental pathways behavioral traits and evoked...

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College Majors

Patnaik, Arpita; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2022

This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender, race, and family background. We then review the existing research in six key areas: expected earnings and...

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Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment : Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes

Conley, Dalton - 2010

Caspi et al. (2002, 2003), Guo et al. (2008a), and Pescosolido et al. (2008) all claim to have demonstrated allele-by-environment interactions, but in all cases environmental influences are potentially endogenous to the unmeasured genetic characteristics of the subjects and their families. Thus,...

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