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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
gender gap in STEM. However, the state of knowledge has probably not reached the point where the empirical findings from this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility
Yum, Minchul - 2016
This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492161
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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment
Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002075141
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The intergenerational effects of economic sanctions
Moeeni, Safoura - 2021
children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … sanctions decreased children's total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518053
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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002122659
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Family structure and child cognitive outcomes : evidence from Canadian longitudinal data
Ferrer, Ana M.; Pan, Yazhuo - 2018
This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than … effect on children's math performance, analysis by gender reveals that girls' performance appears to be more affected than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036989
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How skills and parental valuation of education influence human capital acquisition and early labor market return to human capital in Canada
Kottelenberg, Michael J.; Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019
Using the Youth in Transition Survey we estimate a Roy model with a three dimensional latent factor structure to consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in uence endogenous schooling decisions and subsequent labour market outcomes in Canada. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036991
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Gender differences in STEM persistence after graduation
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209726
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Achievement rank affects performance and major choices in college
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591844
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Gender, productivity, and promotion in the Irish economics profession
Devereux, Kevin; Samahita, Margaret - 2022
Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209723