Similar Search Results

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

How parents' skills affect their time-use with children? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392182

Parenting with patience : parental incentives and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2023

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340223

Human capital pricing equations with an application to estimating the effect of schooling quality on earnings

Heckman, James J. - In: The review of economics and statistics 78 (1996) 4, pp. 562-610

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001334847

Identifying the role of cognitive ability in explaining the level of and change in the return to schooling

Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - In: The review of economics and statistics 83 (2001) 1, pp. 1-12

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001562947

Simple estimators for treatment parameters in a latent-variable framework

Heckman, James J.; Tobias, Justin L.; Vytlacil, Edward - In: The review of economics and statistics 85 (2003) 3, pp. 748-755

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001791796

Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002576887

The impact of the "Coding Girls" program on high school students' educational choices

Basiglio, Stefania; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara … - 2023

female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502693

Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805102

On policies to reward the value added by educators

Cawley, John H.; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - In: The review of economics and statistics 81 (1999) 4, pp. 720-727

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001437459