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Sibling Spillovers May Enhance the Efficacy of Targeted School Policies
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322793
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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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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools
Lavy, Victor - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463049
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Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects : Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom
Lavy, Victor - 2008
In this paper, we estimate the extent of ability peer effects in the classroom and explore the underlying mechanisms through which these peer effects operate. We identify as low ability students those who are enrolled at least one year behind their birth cohort ("repeaters"). We show that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464232
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Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools? : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I credibly estimate both (1) the effect of attending schools with higher-achieving peers, and (2) the direct effect of short-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462054
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Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
Using quasi-random assignment of criminal cases to judges, we estimate large incarceration spillovers in criminal and brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his criminal network members and younger brothers will be...
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Sibling Spillovers
Black, Sandra E. - 2017
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected when the third child is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455618
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Family Background and Optimal Schooling Decision
Lazear, Edward P. - 1980
of costs and returns to education for each individual, based on the assumption that all individuals face the same … borrowing rates. Given costs and returns, one can obtain an optimal wealth-maximizing level of education for each individual …. Differences between actually acquired and wealth-maximizing levels of education can then be calculated, and one can determine …
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The Impact of Education on Family Formation : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the UK
Geruso, Michael - 2018
effects, in addition to and separate from the human capital effects of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453382
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Schools, Skills, and Synapses
Heckman, James J. - 2008
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464582