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Selective secondary education and school participation in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Malawi

Hoop, Jacobus de - 2010 - Version 15 April 2010

Large scale tracking policies, allowing academically apt pupils to enter a select group of secondary schools, can be found in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, evidence on the impact of these policies on school outcomes, especially school participation, is limited. This paper fills this gap...

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis

Haan, Monique de - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis

Haan, Monique de - 2008

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Birth order, family size and educational attainment

Haan, Monique de - 2005

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Dynamic complementarity in skill production : evidence from genetic endowments and birth order

Muslimova, Dilnoza; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Rietveld, … - 2020

The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...

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Birth order, family size and educational attainment

Haan, Monique de - 2005

number of children are twins at last birth and the sex mix of the first two children. The effect of birth order is identified … estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational … between children from higher or lower educated parents. Also the age gap between children does not affect the effect of birth …

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Good or bad? Short- versus long-term effects of multigrading on child achievement

Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard, Patrick; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; … - 2022

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students …

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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995

Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …

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Competition and educational quality : evidence from the Netherlands

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond; Jong, Matthijs de - 2009

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Teenage motherhood and long-run outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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