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, Mathematics and Science performance. -- Education ; student test scores ; enrolment age ; identification …
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relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of …. The education outcome is represented by a binary variable denoting whether the respondent completed high school or not …
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of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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's education levels. To account for this, Ashenfelter and Rouse (1998) provided two reports of each twin's education level. One is … (2016)), to show this may be enough information to identify the underlying true education level without requiring additive … measurement errors. The estimated returns to education are shown to be either the same or below the IV estimates presented in …
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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This paper relies on a large-scale sample of genotyped individuals linked with detailed register data in Denmark to investigate the context-dependence of genetic influences on human capital formation. We show that the returns to genetic endowments, measured by a polygenic score for educational...
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Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect …
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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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