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Do girls really outperform boys in educational outcomes?
Saygın, Perihan Özge - 2014
The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490388
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Bridging the gaps : inequalities in childrens' educational outcomes in Ireland
Madden, David - 2014
Recent developments in the inequality literature has stressed the importance of inequality of opportunity as opposed to inequality of outcome. In this paper we investigate the presence of ex post inequality of opportunity in two measures of educational achievement for a representative sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433961
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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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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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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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Do teachers make better parents? : The differential performance of teachers' children at school
Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002689345
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The intergenerational effects of economic sanctions
Moeeni, Safoura - 2021
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 … children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518053
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Parental education and sons' earnings : a "Beyond the mean" approach along the sons' earnings distributions
Zotti, Roberto - 2020 - Preliminary version
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387037
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The socioeconomic gradient of cognitive test scores : evidence from two cohorts of Irish children
Madden, David - 2020
There is a well-established socioeconomic gradient in cognitive test scores for children. This gradient emerges at very … early ages and there is also some evidence that it can widen as children age. We investigate this phenomenon with two … longitudinal cohorts of Irish children who take such tests at ages ranging from 9 months to 17 years, using maternal education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241586
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The first 2,000 days and child skills : evidence from a randomized experiment of home visiting
Doyle, Orla - 2017
visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685716