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compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
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In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning …-educated parents increase their time investment and choose schools with better inputs when their children are the youngest at school … entry, while non-college-educated parents do not. …
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their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive …
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stripped away from them. Children who are funneled into the foster care system have their bond with their parents more … legislation to create the Council on the Children of Incarcerated Parents and Caregivers (the Council) within the Office of the …
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behaviours of young people and their parents during the teenage years play a key role in explaining the rich-poor gap in GCSE …
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HIV/AIDS, yet little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children whose parents receive …
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In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio …
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Using rich Texas administrative data, we estimate the impact of middle school principals on post-secondary schooling, employment, and criminal justice outcomes. The results highlight the importance of school leadership, though striking differences emerge in the relative importance of different...
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This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the...
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Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
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