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In the past 15 years, four-year-olds' enrollment in state-funded pre-kindergarten in the United States has doubled, and advocates have pushed for further expansion. Although research has shown that pre-K programs can have important benefits, most existing studies have focused on small or...
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Having a child can have a heavy toll on parents' earnings, especially in the first years after childbirth, with mothers … parental leave benefits compared to the EU and norms encouraging mothers to care for children. I carry out an event study to …
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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …
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The reversing achievement gap across genders observed in many countries has led to a heated debate on the persistent gap in academia and other top fields. Using Turkish administrative data and the particular institutional characteristics, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in...
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math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …
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We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …
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