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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …
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Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children …
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impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …
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The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …
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The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …
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