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Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later : Linking Experimental and Field Data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; Glätzle-Rützle, … - 2023
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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Skill formation under incomplete information
Weinschenk, Philipp - 2010
the importance of early investments in children when inter-stage investments are easily substitutable, but strengthens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971536
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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480821
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction
Francesconi, Marco - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989824
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The Long-Run Effects of Reducing Early School Tracking
Canaan, Serena - 2019
Grouping students by ability is a controversial issue, and its impacts are likely to depend on the type of tracking students are exposed to. This paper studies a reform that moved French schools from a rigorous tracking system, which assigned students to tracks with significantly different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867987
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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814374
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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012873134
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Intergenerational transmission of preferences and parental behaviours
Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Del Boca, Daniela; Paladino, … - 2024
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining … Italian households (parents with children 14-20 years of age) our analysis reveals a significant and positive correspondence … between parents' and children's preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the transmission of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463574
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Children Left Behind : Self-Confidence of Pupils in Competitive Environments
Federičová, Miroslava - 2016
Early-tracking systems naturally divide many classes of 11 years old students into two groups: students preparing for exams to enter better schools and everyone else, who decide not to compete for selective schools. Utilizing TIMSS data and a follow-up study in the Czech Republic, which has an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978664
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How Rational Are Children?
Chow, Vinci - 2014
This study revisit the question of children's decision-making quality in light of the methodological shortcomings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152242