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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Family shocks and academic achievement
Hull, Marie - 2015
affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children …Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296058
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement : Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
Elder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2015
Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter … pronounced among children from upper-income families. We do not find that the relationship between entrance age and outcomes … reflects a heightened ability to learn or greater physical maturity among older children, the most common interpretations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057088
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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within these countries, by gender, at different ethnic subgroups. Evidence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576871
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Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates : The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes
Bertoni, Marco - 2017
individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940859
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576852
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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019
parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019317