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This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the educational burden of the ADHD-related behavioral symptoms inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity on aggregate cognitive achievement outcomes. We use a novel compilation of the 2- and 7-repeat allele variants of the human DRD4 exon...
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Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …
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school level fixed effects. …
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network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers in the same class at school. Using spatial regression …
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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Politicians typically focus on short-term economic issues; but, a nation’s long-term economic well-being is directly linked to its rate of economic growth. In turn, its growth rate is directly linked to the economically relevant skills of its population. Until recently, however, economists...
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Bedeutung von Humankapital für regionale Entwicklung in Subsahara-Afrika. Die Studienergebnisse suggerieren eine stärkere … Korrelation von Entwicklung mit kognitiven Fähigkeiten als mit quantitativen Maßen von Humankapital wie die Anzahl der Schuljahre …
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understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random …
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