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attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population … children have 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood. Second, these children are less likely to go to college or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310948
attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population … children have 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood. Second, these children are less likely to go to college or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897513
large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155586
Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512834
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418611
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423667
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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