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Children's Advancement Through School in Brazil: The Role of Transitory Shocks to Household Income
Duryea, Suzanne - 1998
This paper investigates the effects of short-run economic shocks on children`s progress through school in urban Brazil using a unique panel data set. The severe problem of grade repetition in Brazil contributes to overall low education levels. Of children ages 10-15 who are enrolled in school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326987
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One size fits all? The effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement
Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008
Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273945
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Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school performance in Swedish, English and Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by the teacher is compared with results on comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317909
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Comparing teachers' assessments and national test results: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
This study compares results on national tests with teachers’ assessment of student performance, by using Swedish data of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic background. That is, if the relationship between school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317940
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How responsive is body weight to transitory income changes? Evidence from rural Tanzania
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2007
We use time-series of rainfall along with individual fixed effects to estimate the response of body weight to transitory changes in house-hold income and expenditure. Our data consist of a longitudinal sample of subsistence farmers in rural Tazania, representing one of the poorest populations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321546
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Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade-off?
Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans - 2007
Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by … theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family … negative impact of family size on grades in compulsory and secondary school. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317964
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008 …'s working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea
Mellander, Erik; Sandgren-Massih, Sofia - 2008
). The effects on the OVB and the MEB from using family background variables as proxies for ability are investigated … error increases and/or more family background variables are added, the total bias rapidly becomes negative, driving the …
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The intergenerational effects of parental incarceration
Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children's short- and long-run out-comes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different...
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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity: The case of altruism within the family
Bruhin, Adrian; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents' and their adult children's subjective well-being in a data set extracted from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In order to segregate the share of parents with altruistic preferences from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315538