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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Öckert, Björn - 2020
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and informed. In contrast, very talented students with...
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236929
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014
might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects … family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics … characteristics, and social capital are found to be important mediators of the family background effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468427
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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268
potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German … pathways of the family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors ability and skills, study … characteristics, and social capital are important mediators of the family background effects. …
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The rising influence of family background on early school performance
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023
inheritable component. Yet a considerable unexplained rise in the influence of family background remains, pointing towards an …
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The causal effect of early tracking in German schools on the intergenerational transmission of education
Sulzmaier, Dominique - 2020
Numerous studies have found a high intergenerational transmission of education in Germany which might be caused by the relatively early age at which the German school system tracks students into different school types. This study contributes to the scarce literature on the effect of a change in...
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates substantial influences of family background on skill formation … than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by family background. Comparing these findings with those in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318033
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544273
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016 - This version: March 24, 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457886