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Mothers' caregiving during COVID: the impact of divorce laws and homeownership on women's labor force status
Bansak, Cynthia; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Wong, … - 2021
We investigate women's likelihood of withdrawing from paid labor to care for children and help them with schoolwork as … children in grades K-6 between 2019 and 2020, before and after COVID started. We find an association between marital property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519243
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Mothers' Caregiving during COVID: The Impact of Divorce Laws and Homeownership on Women's Labor Force Status
Bansak, Cynthia; Grossbard, Shoshana; Wong, Crystal (Ho Po) - 2021
We investigate women's likelihood of withdrawing from paid labor to care for children and help them with schoolwork as … children in grades K-6 between 2019 and 2020, before and after COVID started. We find an association between marital property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597554
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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701725
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Improving Access and Quality in the Indian Education System
Hill, Sam; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law enshrining the rights of all children to free and compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224863
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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517740
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548435
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The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of … change in the neighbourhood effect. Motivated by the fact that neighbouring children typically go to the same school, we … estimate school mate correlations for children born in the 1960s. The overall impact of factors shared by children who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822843
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The impact of a primary school reform on educational stratification : a Norwegian study of neighbour and school mate correlations
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of … change in the neighbourhood effect. Motivated by the fact that neighbouring children typically go to the same school, we … estimate school mate correlations for children born in the 1960s. The overall impact of factors shared by children who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271752
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Corporate sponsorships in schools : altruism and ethical judgments
Bakir, Aysen; Blodgett, Jeffrey G.; Salazar, Ronald J. - In: Journal of promotion management : JPM 23 (2017) 1, pp. 80-99
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729467
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Schools' attitudes towards single parents: experimental evidence
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Flamand, Sabine - 2020
with heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment with schools during the children's pre-registration period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290821