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Children's education and parental old age survival : quasi-experimental evidence on the intergenerational effects of human capital investment

De Neve, Jan-Walter; Fink, Guenther - In: Journal of health economics 58 (2018), pp. 76-89

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The effects of deferred action for childhood arrivals on the educational outcomes of undocumented students

Hsin, Amy; Ortega, Francesc - 2017

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration reform to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation and renewable work permits. While DACA has improved the economic...

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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...

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Education and mental health : causal effects and intra-family spillovers

Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024

is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … women. To deal with the potential endogeneity, we rely on a natural experiment: an increase in the compulsory education from … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …

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The relationship between school quality and U.S. multi-family housing rents

Gabe, Jeremy; Robinson, Spenser; Sanderford, Andrew - In: The journal of real estate finance and economics 64 (2022) 4, pp. 615-645

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Socioeconomic status and class size in South African secondary schools

Köhler, Timothy - 2020

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Are we spending too many years in school? Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration

Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010

This paper analyzes the impact of shortening the duration of secondary schooling on the accumulation of human capital. In 2003, an educational policy reform was enacted in Saxony-Anhalt, a German state, providing a natural experimental setting. The thirteenth year of schooling was eliminated for...

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The impact of peer ability and heterogeneity on student achievement: Evidence from a natural experiment

Kiss, David - 2011

This paper estimates the impact of peer achievement and variance on math achievement growth. It exploits exogenous variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders. Parents and schools are barely able to condition their...

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Incentives for Students: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

Beltz, Philipp; Link, Susanne; Ostermaier, Andreas - 2012

Incentives are widely used to increase people's effort and thus performance. Whileacademic achievement depends heavily on effort, there is little empirical evidence onhow students respond to incentives other than grades and monetary rewards. We drawon two natural experiments that occurred at a...

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Migration policy can boost PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan - 2012

Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a non-qualified only policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for...

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