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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655310
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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624582
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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
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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize … inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is crucial for a society to know how the public education system can … on the effects of some important aspects of education policies. It comprises an introduction and four core chapters which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741826
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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
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Charter schools and the segregation of students by income
Dalane, Kari; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021
The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509177
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Education and later-life mortality : evidence from a school reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328557
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910
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Social interactions and schooling decisions
Lalive, Rafael (contributor);  … - 2006
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355647