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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803493
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …
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Are children's socio-emotional skills shaped by parental health shocks?
García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …
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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013
students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223398
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The quantity and quality of teachers : a dynamic trade-off
Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2009
We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective...
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Talent, labor quality, and economic development German Cubas
Ravikumar, B.; Ventura, Gustavo - 2013
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Cross-country data on skills and the quality of schooling : a selective survey
Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2021
variables in empirical analyses of the determinants of income and welfare levels and growth rates. A final section investigates …
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...
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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...
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