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Genetic markers as instrumental variables: an application to child fat mass and academic achievement
Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von; Smith, George Davey - 2010
The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from economists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments. We combine the IV literature with that from genetic epidemiology, with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942198
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Does high school homework increase academic achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350367
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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement
Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
nature of entrepreneurial talent and the specific role of education in entrepreneurial selection and performance. Empirical … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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The contribution of education to economic growth : a review of the evidence, with special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
Glewwe, Paul; Maïga, Eugénie; Zheng, Haochi - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 59 (2014), pp. 379-393
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417696
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages … and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous … variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786492
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages … and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous … variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730585
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Child height, health and human capital: Evidence using genetic markers
von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie; Davey Smith, George - In: European Economic Review 57 (2013) C, pp. 1-22
Height has long been recognized as being associated with better outcomes: the question is whether this association is causal. We use children's genetic variants as instrumental variables to deal with possible unobserved confounders and examine the effect of child/adolescent height on a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608237
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Does vocational education pay off in China? Instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this … paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use … of education. We find that vocational education provides a wage premium vis-à-vis academic education of over 30% but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175723
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Does vocational education pay off in China? : instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this … paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use … of education. We find that vocational education provides a wage premium vis-à-vis academic education of over 30% but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175860