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-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …
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-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …
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In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...
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suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate … educated mothers reinforce these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments are … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …
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suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate … educated mothers reinforce these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments are … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …
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(ECD), and estimate the impact of mothers' exposure to education reform using RDD. Our analysis reveals a significant … age disparities between partners, suggesting an improvement in mothers' agency-aligned with the heightened engagement of … fathers with their children. Despite the typical emphasis on mothers in ECD research, our study indicates a significant …
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Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and workers make relationship-specific...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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