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Bolyard, Atticus; Savelyev, Peter A. - 2024

formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … designed to predict the highest level of education achieved in life. We find that the EA PGI demonstrates stronger effects on … explained by education as a mechanism. We provide suggestive evidence for the mechanisms behind estimated relationships …

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Born this way: The effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...

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Wealth and the Construction of Non-Cognitive Skills. The Case of Colombia

Melo, Rodrigo Azuero - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014

The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...

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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model

Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jacques - In: Economia 14 (2013) 2, pp. 46-60

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...

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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model

Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jacques - In: EconomiA 14 (2013) 2, pp. 46-60

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Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?

Ginther, Donna K.; Pollak, Robert A. - 2014

In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children's educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling structure in the NLSY and NLSY-Child to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families and individuals. We also compare outcomes for children within the same family -...

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Maternal Education and Early Child Development : The Roles of Parental Support for Learning, Learning Materials, and Father Characteristics

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemira, … - 2023

This paper explores the intergenerational eects of maternal education on the development outcomes of 24- to 59-month …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education …

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Immigrant concentration in schools : consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013

primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …

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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment

Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016

This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...

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