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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
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Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development?
Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such positive effects persist. We identify the short- and medium-run effects of early child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636663
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Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development?
Kuehnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such positive effects persist. We identify the short- and medium-run effects of early child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622988
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Is the market pronatalist? : inequality, differential fertility, and growth revisited
Bar, Michael; Hazan, Moshe; Leukhina, Oksana; Weiss, David - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752253
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Compositional effects, segregation and test scores : evidence from the national assessment of educational progress
Munk, Tom E.; McMillian-Robinson, Marciea Monique; … - In: The review of black political economy 41 (2014) 4, pp. 433-454
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One-to-one technology and student outcomes
Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017
New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704290
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Conditions and consequences of education : microeconometric analyses
Bergbauer, Annika Barbara - 2019
the achievement impact of alternative uses of student assessments. In result, the expansion of standardized external … comparisons associates with improvements in student achievement. The effect of schoolbased comparison is stronger in low … inspectorates do not affect student achievement. Chapter 4 investigates how teacher specialization to a field of subjects during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054525
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A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Janys, Lena; Mammen, Enno; … - 2014
We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker or covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386392
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Class ridden or meritocratic? : an economic analysis of recent changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2002
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415585
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A matter of time? : measuring effects of public schooling expansions on families’ constraints
Gibbs, Chloe R.; Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2024
—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand mothers’ and families’ constraints. We first show that mothers … of children in full-day kindergarten spend significantly more time at work, less time with their children, less time …-day kindergarteners. Exploiting full-day kindergarten variation across place and time from 1992 through 2022, combined with the narrow age …
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