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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children …
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investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents … invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that … success of their children. I exploit a natural experiment that took place in Germany in the year 2000 that reduced the …
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Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using...
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outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete-count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … on children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children …
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