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Gender gaps in early educational achievement

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015

because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling

Gang, Ira N. - 1996

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …

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"A" is the aim?

Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016

This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

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Unlucky to be young? : the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health

Bahrs, Michael; Schumann, Mathias - 2016

In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy...

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Understanding the effects of education on health : evidence from China

Huang, Wei - 2015

education on health among working-age population and explores the potential mechanisms. Using the exogenous variation in … and peer effects are important channels in the education-health nexus, and all of these factors explain almost half of the … education's impact. These suggest that CSLs have improved national health significantly in China and the findings help to …

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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment

Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

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