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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or … intelligence: higher-IQ entrepreneurs are less likely to follow their fathers. Third, an entrepreneur that starts a firm in the … same industry as where his father was employed tends to outperform entrepreneurs in the same industry whose fathers did not …
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Alcohol and Student Performance : Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
Lindo, Jason M. - 2011
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol on student achievement. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead exploits the longitudinal nature of the data,...
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Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality : Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina
Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2012
This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). Consistent with the model, results from administrative data show that teachers have causal...
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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012
A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
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Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task : Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel on Student Academic Achievement and Behavior
Lavy, Victor - 2012
This paper uses a natural experiment in Israel to assess the impact of school teaching resources and how it is used, ‘time-on-task', on academic achievements and non-cognitive outcomes. It exploits variation induced by a change in the funding formula that reduced instructional resources...
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Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? an Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education
Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2012
In the early twentieth century, education legislation was often passed based on arguments that new laws were needed to force immigrants to learn English and "Americanize." We provide the first estimates of the effect of statutes requiring English as the language of instruction and compulsory...
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The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools : Evidence from the Bright School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra - 2012
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of Nclb
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
The No Child Left Behind (NLCB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state administered exams. Based on student test score performance in 2002, states developed initial proficiency rate targets and future annual benchmarks designed to lead students...
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New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada
Kottelenberg, Michael - 2013
In Canada, advocates of universal child care often point to policies implemented in Quebec as providing a model for early education and care policies in other provinces. While these policies have proven to be incredibly popular among citizens, initial evaluations of access to these programs...
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