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adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …
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be responsible for poor health and low levels of schooling among the children of young mothers. This paper uses special … the effect of maternal age and single parenthood on children's disability status and school progress. Our results suggest … that there is little association between maternal age at birth and children's disabilities. But the children of teen …
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teachers or with both genders. I also find that the direct impact of the bonus program on students' outcomes did not vary by …
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A recent critique of using teachers' test score value-added (TVA) is that teacher quality is multifaceted; some teachers are effective in raising test scores, others are effective in improving long-term outcomes. This paper exploits an institutional setting where high school teachers are randomly...
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paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …
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Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …
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