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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy: IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … size on children's education. We show that these findings are robust to a number of checks. The effects appear stronger for …

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Intensive informal care and impairments in work productivity and activity

Kolodziej, Ingo; Coe, Norma B.; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2023

Informal care reduces work on the intensive and extensive margins; however, we do not know how caregiving affects work productivity. We link two new unique national U.S. data sets to provide the first causal estimates of the effect of providing at least 80 hours of informal care in the past...

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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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Charters without lotteries : testing takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; … - 2015

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Heterogeneous spillover effects of children's education on parental mental health

Everding, Jakob - 2019

Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely … unstudied. This study is the first to analyze heterogeneous intergenerational effects of children's education on parents' mental … schooling reforms. Increasing children's education reduces parents' long-term probability of developing depression. Fathers and …

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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables

Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler; Smith, George Davey - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from epidemiologists, economists, statisticians and social scientists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments. Although these have been...

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Intensive informal care and impairments in work productivity and activity

Kolodziej, Ingo; Coe, Norma B.; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2023

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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...

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Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data

Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011

We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...

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