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How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions : The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes
Papay, John P. - 2011
Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future educational-investment decisions is not well understood. Increasingly common sources of information are state-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score...
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Keepin' 'EM Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Jensen, Robert - 2017
In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by...
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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 has been one of the most robust effects in human capital and stratification research over the last few decades. For example, Featherman and Hauser (1978: 242-243) estimate that...
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Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
In this paper we analyze the link between people's "subjective" expectations of returns to schooling and their decision … attendance decision, while for the college attendance decision the youths' expectations appear to be the relevant ones. These … results suggest that youths play an important role in the intra-family decision process about human capital investments. While …
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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period : What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021
Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie; Rotemberg, Martin; Shah, Manisha; … - 2022
Policies that improve early life human capital are a promising tool to alter disadvantaged children's lifelong trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work. If there are positive returns to human capital in child...
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2023
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools
Lavy, Victor - 2010
In this paper, we study ability peer effects in secondary schools in England and identify which segments of the peer ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and...
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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
Das, Jishnu - 2011
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...
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