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We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children …. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour …, we find a negative association between maternal majority identity and children's cognitive test scores. This result is …
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range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …
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Gender-matching school environments may provide benefits for girls to enhance their performance. By using PISA data … from South Korea, this paper suggests that the effects of single-sex schooling and a student-teacher's gender matching are … heterogeneous across different student groups. The gender-matching school environments are most positive to non-cognitive outcomes …
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This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive long-run effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …
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This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive longrun effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063155
Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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decreases in children's education and increases in boys' criminal behavior. …
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Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … educated and skilled males tend to have more children than their less skilled peers once we use twin/sibling fixed effects to … skills and traits when children are small as well as the choices, in terms of family formation and human capital investments …
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acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …
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Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...
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