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This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …
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Using student-level longitudinal data of 6th graders I estimate class composition effects impacting on individual academic achievement. The richness of the dataset allows to tackle endogeneity stemming from between and within-school non-random sorting of students and of teachers and other...
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This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …
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In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls’ disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …)equality also contributes to girls’ disadvantage. For reading, at the upper end of the talent distribution, girls’ advantage can be …
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