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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...
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Heterogeneous spillover effects of children's education on parental mental health
Everding, Jakob - 2019
Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely … unstudied. This study is the first to analyze heterogeneous intergenerational effects of children's education on parents' mental … schooling reforms. Increasing children's education reduces parents' long-term probability of developing depression. Fathers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034757
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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills
Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020
. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals' life trajectories in terms of health, education, and earnings, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236361
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Missing data, imputation, and endogeneity
McDonough, Ian K.; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016
Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized classical estimates of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 27, 72-81) introduced...
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
We examine the relationship between child quantity and quality. Motivated by the theoretical ambiguity regarding the sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted relationship between family size and child outcomes....
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Public and parental investments, and children's skill formation
Gensowski, Miriam; Landersø, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024
' education by 46%. We show that the heterogeneous treatment effects are a result of differences in parents' responses in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525172
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Evidence on the Production of Cognitive Achievement from Moving to Opportunity
Aliprantis, Dionissi - 2017
This paper performs a subgroup analysis on the effect of receiving a Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing voucher on test scores. I find evidence of heterogeneity by number of children in the household in Boston, gender in Chicago, and race/ethnicity in Los Angeles. To study the mechanisms...
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How much should we trust linear instrumental variables estimators? An application to family size and children's education
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2009
causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269608