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The effect of childhood conduct disorder on human capital

Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Vujić, Sunčica; … - 2010

This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...

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Double majors : one for me, one for the parents?

Zafar, Basit - 2010

At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...

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The effect of tracking students by ability into different schools : a natural experiment

Guyon, Nina; Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - 2010

of allowing entry to the elite track for a group that was previously only at the margin of being admitted. -- Education …

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …

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The impact of family income on child achievement : evidence from the earned income tax credit

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012

Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...

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Institutional reforms and educational attainment in Europe : a long run perspective

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - 2011

population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset … selective ones. -- education ; institutions ; reform ; family background …

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Mental health and education decisions

Cornaglia, Francesca; Crivellaro, Elena; McNally, Sandra - 2012

both on measures of child wellbeing and the probability of early drop-out from the labour market and education. We study … educational outcomes - where we consider examination results before leaving compulsory education and the probability of being "not … in education, employment or training" at a young age. The association is large even after including a very rich set of …

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Merit aid, student mobility, and the role of college selectivity

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Roy, Joydeep - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the role of college selectivity in mobility decisions (both in-state and out-of-state) of freshmen students following Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by Georgia’s freshmen students? Did it induce...

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

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Does expert advice improve educational choice?

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Stenberg, Anders - 2013

This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months after graduation from college. The results are strongest among males and those with low educated...

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