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, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
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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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immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …
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We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …
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their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
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In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long … not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …
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children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …
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In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …
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