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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370100
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: Economics of education review 43 (2014), pp. 47-65
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516796
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171427
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Allergy test : seasonal allergens and performance in school
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2014
Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415292
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Orphanhood and critical periods in children’s human capital formation : long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania
Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most … accumulation. -- Orphans ; health ; education ; timing of parental death ; child development ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008659371
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341095
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School : Evidence from an English Cohort
Mendolia, Silvia - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051789
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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003
We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed … is positively correlated with higher educational attainment, but that the overall improvement of parental education has … attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for individuals born in regions and cohorts with poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589663
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement : Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
Elder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2015
Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter kindergarten score higher on achievement tests and are less likely to repeat grades or suffer from learning disabilities than their younger classmates. These differences are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057088
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Are children's socio-emotional skills shaped by parental health shocks?
García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337549