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Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on sociological theory and using spatial regression techniques, I introduce social network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers within the class. In a spatial...
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Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …
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’ academic achievements. In this study, I investigate whether having a foreign origin teacher causally affects the language …
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I investigate the effect of changing language skills on trade using an unique panel data set on spoken language. It … countries have witnessed an advancing trade integration and large changes in foreign language knowledge. I estimate a … Russia profited from the rise in the percentage of English speakers. Further, in a re-estimation of Fidrmuc and Fidrmuc (2016 …
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phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
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young cohort and 443 of the old cohort - children in five regions in the country over two rounds from the Young Lives Survey … there are regional, residence, and gender disparities in the cognitive skills of the children in each cohort an appropriate … children in their early ages. …
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