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The effect of parental educational expectations on adolescent subjective well-being and the moderating role of perceived academic pressure : longitudinal evidence for China
Lu, Haiyang; Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2019
Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers …
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What divides the first and second generations? : family time of arrival and educational outcomes for immigrant youth
Hull, Marie - 2022
performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358971
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The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes
Mart, Joaquim; Perini, Lionel - 2013
In this paper we use longitudinal data on Swiss adolescents to nvestigate the impact of cannabis use on short-term educational performance. We focus our analysis on high school students and analyze various outcomes, including absenteeism, grades, and motivation. We exploit the panel nature of...
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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …
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Parental involvement and education outcomes of their children
Kantova, Klara - 2022
With the goal to shed more light on the effectiveness of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal … relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of … characteristics of children as well as parents. To estimate causal treatment effects, I use a simple logistic regression along with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807274
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No country for young kids? The effects of school starting age throughout childhood and beyond
Lima, Gonçalo; Nunes, Luis C.; Reis, Ana Balcão; … - 2022
Being the youngest in a cohort entails many penalties. Using administrativedata of every public-school student in Portugal, we show that although performancegains from being 1-year older fade quickly from primary education to high school,age-related penalties persist through a combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085342
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Los rendimientos de la educación en México
Morales-Ramos, Eduardo - 2011
This paper estimates private returns to education in Mexico by means of the Mincer model. The natural ability bias that the literature reports in this type of estimations is tried to be solved using the control function method. Through this method some variables relevant to wage determination...
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Teenage childbearing and labor m arket implications for women : teenage childbearing is less a cause of inferior labor market outcomes for women than a marker of other social probl...
Levine, Phillip B. - 2014
It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman's economic potential - or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414815
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What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth
Hull, Marie - 2023
performance of late-arriving first-generation children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261512