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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
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This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860291
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
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class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …
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becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the … einem Universitätsabschluss geringfügig mehr Kinder bekommen. Zerlegt man diesen Effekt nach dem Alter der Mutter wird …
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birth. Children born before the cut-off date start school earlier than children born after the cut-off date. Therefore … the number of children. We analyze the effects of age at school enrolment on fertility in Germany. Our results suggest … that women that are older at graduation are somewhat older at the age of first birth but do not have less children than …
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This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …Frauen können eigene Kinder gebären oder Kinder adoptieren. In einer Erweiterung ökonomischer Theorien der Fertilität …
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