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We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
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We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...
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reciprocity. At the same time, the country's religious composition drives the association between altruism and financial knowledge …
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account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within …
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We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment … educational attainment of children measured by grade point averages. Impaired non-cognitive rather than cognitive skills are … identified as channels through which exposure affects children's educational achievement …
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Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children … linked to age at arrival, and that migrant children arrive at different ages from different countries of origin. In … particular, I instrument English proficiency by comparing children from English-speaking countries to children from non …
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math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …
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' children. First, we establish the direct effect of initial labour market conditions on later labour market performance for the … find evidence that this initial effect feeds into the children's school performance. Concretely, for the sons, we find a …
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-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … tests, children of Hispanic origin were randomly assigned to take the tests either in Spanish or in English. Therefore, we … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …
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