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Improvements in schooling opportunities and teen births

Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024

We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...

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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions : evidence from a pioneer program in Chile

Rude, Britta - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of comprehensive and universal early childhood development programs on outcomes in middle childhood. I exploit the birth eligibility cutoff of a pioneer intervention of this type in Chile and use administrative data on grade point averages, standardized test...

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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010

, such as in labor markets. To understand the nature of inputs and incentives related to education in developing countries … incentives. What are critical inputs into different educational processes? How important are various incentives for improving … have direct impact on input decisions versus policies that alter longer-run incentives to invest in current education …

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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...

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Reaping the rewards later : how education improves old-age cognition in South Africa

Nikolov, Plamen; Yeh, Steve - 2022

Cognitive performance in late adulthood is critical for better welfare and understanding the causes of human capital depreciation in old age is increasingly crucial in aging societies. Using data from South Africa, we study how early life education affects cognition, a component of human capital...

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2015

This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous...

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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2016

We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving differences between the reduced form 'policy effect' of...

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Schooling, family background, and adoption : is it nature or is it nurture?

Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...

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