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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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Age at Preschool Entrance and Noncognitive Skills before School - An Instrumental Variable Approach

Schlotter, Martin - 2011

We estimate the effect of age at preschool entrance on crucial noncognitive skills in theyear before school starts. Using an instrumental variable approach and exploiting cut-offdates for the time at preschool entrance we find that children entering preschool earlierin life have better...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007

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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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 2007

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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as...

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Early, late or never? When does parental education impact child outcomes?

Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet - 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 …

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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

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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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