Showing 1 - 8 of 8
persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144936
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859285
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943711
, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106633
markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025862
achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less advantaged backgrounds. Second, there are large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249115
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141770
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016313