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Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P.; … - 2015

birth records aggregated at the municipal level, we find, consistent with previous findings, a reduction in teen pregnancy. …

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School entry age policy and adolescent risk-taking

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Montresor, Giulia; Nicodemo, Catia - 2024

mandates that children begin primary education in the year they turn six, creating relative age differences within cohorts due …

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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents' aspirations and child's academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children's schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children’s schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

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When a Strike Strikes Twice : Massive Student Mobilizations and Teenage Pregnancy in Chile

Celhay, Pablo A. - 2020

We empirically study the impact of massive and sudden school closures on teenage pregnancy, following the 2011 … strike's onset and is entirely driven by first-time mothers. The sudden and unexpected closure of schools allows interpreting …

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Do STEM students vote?

Bell, D'Wayne; Feng, Jing; Holbein, John B.; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i.e., STEM) fields. However, the research supporting this...

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China's only children and their spillover effects on academic performance in the classroom

Wang, Haining; Zhu, Rong - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 19 (2019) 4, pp. 1-10

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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …

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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college? : conference paper

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2014 - Preliminary draft (v5feb2014)

Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing literature that uses subjective wage expectation data...

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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...

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