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' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
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them when substitution is difficult. The latter case is empirically relevant. -- Skill Formation ; Education ; Incomplete …
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education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background … correlations ; education ; education reform …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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education). However, as our estimators allow for heterogeneity both across and within groups, we are able to contradict many …
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education). However, as our estimators allow for heterogeneity both across and within groups, we are able to contradict many …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from … dominance assumptions and (3) we consider education and labor market outcomes observed for individuals in their early 30s. The … results show that Head Start has a statistically significant positive effect on years of education, in particular for women …
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Research has shown that giving disadvantaged families financial incentives to invest in their children could decrease socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We use a field experiment to investigate how parents...
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