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Job loss at home : children's school performance during the Great Recession
Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 3, pp. 243-286
information on their children's school performance, for a sample of over 300 students. Using individual fixed effects, the …
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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013
We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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Selection and Educational Attainment : Why Some Children are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Méndez-Errico, Luciana - 2019
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870453
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Selection and educational attainment : why some children are left behind? : evidence from a middle-income country
Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2019
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977441
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Nudging parents to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Becerra Luna, Laura; … - 2021
only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …
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Boosting parent-child math engagement and preschool children's math skills : evidence from an RCT with low-income families
Mayer, Susan E.; Kalil, Ariel; Delgado, William; Liu, … - In: Economics of education review 95 (2023), pp. 1-9
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Within-school spillover effects of foreclosures and student mobility on student academic performance
Bradbury, Katharine L.; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. - 2015 - This version: July 25, 2014
Aside from effects on nearby property values, research is sparse on how foreclosures may generate negative externalities. Employing a unique dataset that matches individual student records from Boston Public Schools - including test scores, demographics, home address moves, and school changes -...
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Within-School Spillover Effects of Foreclosures and Student Mobility on Student Academic Performance
Bradbury, Katharine - 2015
Working with a unique dataset that matches individual student records from Boston Public Schools with real estate records that indicate whether the student lived at an address involved in foreclosure, the authors investigate the degree to which the test scores of students attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013540
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Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence : Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce it?
Demirel, Merve - 2020
parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831215
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Better off on their own? : how peer effects determine international patterns of the mathematics gender achievement gap
Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: November 2020
This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education production function setting and controlling for the...
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