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What makes a test score? The respective contributions of pupils, schools, and peers in achievement in English primary education
Kramarz, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Ouazad, Amine - 2008
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using rich data from England that matches pupils to their primary schools. The dataset records all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269210
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The crime reducing effect of education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However, it is essential to ensure that the direction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269760
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The impact of truancy on educational attainment: A bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281614
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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia - 2008
probability of being in school for secondary school children was about 6 percent higher in 2002 than in 1998. These estimates … children in provinces fully implementing the FEL were 3 percent more likely to be in school and 1.6 percent points less likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278225
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293068
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Parental education and child's education: A natural experiment
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2004
target children at risk of not maximising their educational potential, the estimates are of interest. Contrary to recent … evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children’s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children’s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293769
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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005
their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267651
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268532
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Maternal gender role attitudes, human capital investment, and labour supply of sons and daughters
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - 2012
the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284009
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288339