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The American high school graduation rate: trends and levels
Heckman, James Joseph; LaFontaine, Paul A. - 2007
school graduation rate. Correcting for important biases that plague previous calculations, we establish that (a) the true … high school graduation rate is substantially lower than the official rate issued by the National Center for Educational … and have not converged over the past 35 years; (d) the decline in high school graduation rates occurs among native …
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Mental health and education decisions
Cornaglia, Francesca; Crivellaro, Elena; McNally, Sandra - 2012
Mental health problems - and depression in particular - have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which has a low international ranking both on measures of child wellbeing and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282352
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Genetic markers as instrumental variables: An application to child fat mass and academic achievement
von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie; Smith, George Davey - 2010
-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan) and academic performance. OLS results indicate that leaner children perform slightly better in school …
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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.
Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele - 2015
We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932-1972 cohorts using a human capital investment model with heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and average learning ability...
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Does marriage matter for children? Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2007
This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268472
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Intergenerational persistence in educational attainment in Italy
Checchi, Daniele; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Leonardi, Marco - 2008
In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent difference in the odds of attaining a college degree between...
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Why does height matter for educational Attainment? Evidence from German pre-teen children
Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - 2010
more likely to enroll in 'Gymnasium', the most academic secondary school track, and that (ii) primary school teachers give … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
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Annual educational attainment estimates for US counties 1990 - 2005
Bode, Eckhardt - 2010
This paper estimates annual data on educational attainment for 3,076 mainland U.S. counties 1991-2005. Being estimated without resorting to ancillary information, this data is suited particular well for panel regression analyses. Several plausibility checks indicate that the data is fairly...
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Graded children: Evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … getting grades increases the probability of high school graduation for boys and girls with compulsory school educated parents … elementary school. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273930
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The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2023
We estimate the transmission of higher education across generations using the arrival of the Pinochet dictatorship to Chile in 1973 as natural experiment. Pinochet promoted a large contraction in the number of seats available for new students across all universities. Using census data, we find...
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