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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …
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Diverging destinies in international perspective : education, single motherhood, and child poverty
Härkönen, Juho - 2017
Educational differences in family demography have gained wide attention, not least due to arguments that they amplify existing inequalities in child well-being and life chances. Despite the interest, there has been a lack of comprehensive cross-national descriptions of trends in educational...
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Which club should i attend, dad? : targeted socialization and production
Albornoz, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2014
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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores
Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023
This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
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Gendered effects of early childhood weather shocks on locus of control : evidence from 28 agricultural countries
Shoji, Masahiro - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 3, pp. 1363-1393
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International comparisons of educational attainment
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - 1993
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J. - 1993
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2021
Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...
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Teaching practices and student achievement : evidence from TIMSS
Bietenbeck, Jan-Christoph - 2011
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Does the transition into daylight saving time affect students' performance?
Herber, Stefanie P.; Quis, Johanna Sophie; Heineck, Guido - In: Economics of education review 61 (2017), pp. 130-139
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