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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants

Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …

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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement : Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers

Elder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2015

Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter kindergarten score higher on achievement tests and are less likely to repeat grades or suffer from learning disabilities than their younger classmates. These differences are driven...

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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?

Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012

Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...

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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

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Parenting styles, socioeconomic status and (non-)cognitive skills

Kugler, Philipp; Kroczek, Martin; Zühlke, Anne - 2022

This paper analyzes the role of parenting styles, a recent topic in the economic literature. Using a novel latent class model, we investigate which parenting styles can be observed in the data and how parenting styles are related to parents’ socioeconomic status and household composition. We...

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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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Does quality time produce quality children? : evidence on the intergenerational transmission of human capital using parental deaths

Gould, Eric D.; Simhon, Avi - 2011

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...

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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths

Gould, Eric D. - 2011

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The time-varying role of the family in student time use and achievement

Hull, Marie - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 10, pp. 1-20

of time-varying family factors for child achievement and time use. Specifically, I take a model of academic achievement … commonly used in the test score literature, and I augment it to include a family-year effect. Identification comes from the … effects reveal that annual family innovations, relative to what was expected based on the previous year, are more important …

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