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Selection and educational attainment : why some children are left behind? : evidence from a middle-income country

Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2019

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

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Consequences of Divorce for Childhood Education : Australia, Canada, and the USA, 1940-1990

Evans, M. D. R.; Kelley, Jonathan; Wanner, Richard A. - 2008

estimate models controlling many potentially confounding variables. Divorce costs seven-tenths of a year of education, mainly …

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Universal Early Childhood Education and Adolescent Risky Behavior

Ando, Michihito; Mori, Hiroaki; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2022

The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper …

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Decomposing Achievement Test Scores Into Measures of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Borghans, Lex; Schils, Trudie - 2019

Achievement test scores not only reflect students’ ability, knowledge and intelligence, but also their noncognitive skills such as personality traits and motivation. If multiple traits determine test scores, an important question is whether it is feasible to unravel the information from one...

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The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018

In this paper we examine whether – conditional on other family inputs – bilingual children achieve different outcomes in language and emotional development. Our data come from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) which allows us to analyze children's language and emotional development in...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2011

transmission effects are virtually unchanged by controlling for childhood environment or parental education, suggesting that the …

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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

Dickson, Matthew - 2013

We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in education levels induced by the 1972 Raising of ….We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 4 and …

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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias Among Immigrant Children

Akresh, Richard; Redstone, Ilana - 2021

We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...

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Do smart parents raise smart children? : The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities

Anger, Silke; Heineck, Guido - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 3, pp. 1105-1132

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