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Attitudes towards single parents' children in private and state-dependent private schools : experimental evidence
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Flamand, Sabine - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 2, pp. 223-242
and state-dependent private schools in Catalonia (Spain) are more reluctant to interact with single parents than with … fictitious families (heterosexual couple, single mother, and single father) and send e-mails to schools in which the family … structure is made explicit. Our results indicate that schools are more prone to interact with single parents than with …
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How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently : evidence from Colombia
Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2012
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511304
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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015
scores at younger grades that persist at least two years. We show that these effects are concentrated among schools that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503454
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The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on Schooling and Child Labor
Hoddinott, John - 2012
We investigate the impact of participation in the Public Works component of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program, the largest social protection program in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa, on schooling and child labor. Income from Public Works should reduce demand for child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117019
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2013
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073854
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Actually, We are Leaving Children Behind : How Changes to Title I Under the No Child Left Behind Act Have Helped Relieve Public Schools of the Responsibility for Taking Care of Dis...
Suski, Emily - 2014
order to improve disadvantaged students' access to education in public schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053897
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Children in the aftermath of the Great Recession
Andersen, Carsten; Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Nielsen, … - 2022
In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession using staggered difference-in-differences (DiD). We exploit quasi-experimental variation in announcements of mass layoffs in Danish firms in 2008-2019. We document that parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271150
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260836
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Do parents know best? : the short and long-run effects of attending the schools that parents prefer
Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement - 2018
Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that … Barbados. Using discrete choice models, we document that most parents have strong preferences for the same schools. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927677
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Poor little children : the socio economic gap in parental responses to school disadvantage
Berniell, Inés; Estrada, Ricardo - 2017
-educated parents increase their time investment and choose schools with better inputs when their children are the youngest at school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761235