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Gender gaps in early educational achievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies … because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388336
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Gender gaps in early educational schievement
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415270
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579650
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Migrant youths' educational achievement : the role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581046
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307310
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Immigration and status exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes … States among immigrants with lower levels of education and mixed nativity couples with foreign-born husbands. Partly because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310812
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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224588
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Is there an educational penalty for being suspended from school?
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224597
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Migrant youths' educational achievement : the role of institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521178
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Parents' responses to teacher qualifications
Chang, Simon; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2020
We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents’ investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more qualified teachers by increasing their financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320972