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monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … children's socio-emotional skills. I leverage administrative and survey data from Germany to create exogenous between …-sibling variation 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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This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on low-stakes test performance across a broad age range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally representative survey in China, we find that fetal PM2.5 exposure...
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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …
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(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …
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are more detrimental for the math and reading achievement of boys and the reading achievement of low-income students …
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previously-estimated average effects to predict benefits. Moreover, it suggests that interventions that target all students would …
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, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …
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a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …
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