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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers

Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....

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The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020

using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …

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Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio C. - 2020

In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still growing literature has focused mainly on the experience of old settlement countries and has mainly looked at single aspects of the phenomenon. In order to guide effective...

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Educational expectations in the great recession: has the impact of family background become stronger?

Salazar, Leire; Cebolla-Boado, Héctor; Radl, Jonas - In: Socio-Economic Review 18 (2020) 2, pp. 465-491

This article addresses the impact of economic climate, and particularly of the Great Recession, on the configuration of educational expectations among students around 14 years old. We analyze expectations regarding educational attainment conditional on school performance and compare our results...

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Complex approaches for education in Brazil

Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra Morita; Tóvolli, Marina H. - 2016

Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …

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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction

Demange, Perline A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Mallard, … - 2020

Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...

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Centralized Admission Systems and School Segregation: Evidence from a National Reform

Kutscher, Macarena; Nath, Shanjukta; Urzua, Sergio - 2020

of residential segregation and local school supply. For instance, districts with prominent provision of private education …

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