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The consequences of cellphone restrictions in classrooms

Shi, Ying; Villarroel, Francisco - 2026

Schools are increasingly restricting cellphones worldwide amid concerns about achievement and mental health, yet causal evidence on school-level bans remains mixed. We examine cellphone restrictions in Chile before the pandemic, where teacher discretion over cellphone use generated...

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What's the link between health, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, education, and economic growth? : Glm-ardl approaches

Almusallam, Naif; Fikri, Yahya; Nechchad, Abdelhamid; … - 2026

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Socioeconomic status and gender gaps in educational outcomes across the life course : new distributional evidence

Nguyen, Ha; Chapman, Bruce James; Le, Huong; Royer, Heather - 2026

This study leverages whole-of-population linked census-administrative data to examine gender gaps in educational outcomes from early primary school through early adulthood in Australia and to assess the contribution of socioeconomic factors to these gaps. We find that females outperform males...

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What explains the increase in immigrants' educational attainment in the United States?

Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2026

The educational distribution of U.S. immigrants shifted significantly to the right in recent decades as the share without a high school diploma fell and the share with a bachelor's degree rose. This improvement coincided with a shift in immigrants' origins toward Asia and rising global education...

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What explains the increase in immigrants' educational attainment in the United States?

Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2026

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Skill formation with siblings

Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

This paper estimates a structural model of skill formation for children who grow up with siblings, introducing a novel variable, the "sibling bond," which captures how well siblings get along. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study in the United Kingdom, I construct this measure from...

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Clouded minds : air pollution and student cognitive performance

Ferro, Simone; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2026

We estimate the causal effect of air pollution on primary school students' cognitive performance in Italy, exploiting daily within-municipality variation in pollution across exam dates. Using INVALSI administrative data on the universe of students over ten cohorts and a specification with...

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Breaking the barriers to higher education : the long-term benefits of a boarding school for disadvantaged students

Behaghel, Luc; Chaisemartin, Clément de; Gurgand, Marc - 2026

Intergenerational mobility in France is limited. "Boarding Schools of Excellence" support disadvantaged adolescents through structured environments and improved learning conditions. Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper estimates the long-term effects of one such school. It halves...

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Education and selection into ethnic identification : evidence from Roma people in Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Matache, Margareta - 2026

How does ethnic identification vary with education among disadvantaged minorities? We study this question for Roma people, Europe's largest ethnic minority, using linked Romanian census data and birth records. We measure how individuals change reported ethnicity over time, or "pass." Roma...

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Education and Selection into Ethnic Identification : Evidence from Roma People in Romania

Mitrut, Andreea; Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Matache, Margareta - 2025

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Labor market outcomes of highly educated women in Japan : the role of field of study and STEM degrees

Ueno, Yuko; Usui, Emiko - 2026

This study investigates gender differences in labor market outcomes among highly educated individuals in Japan, emphasizing heterogeneity by fields of study, with a focus on STEM. Using data from the Japanese Panel Study of Employment Dynamics (JPSED), we find that women with STEM degrees begin...

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Lasting effects of retaking college admission exams

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Gallegos, Sebastian; … - 2026

Do second chances at a high-stakes admission exam yield long-term gains? Leveraging fifteen years of Chilean administrative data and an RDD, we examine the causal effects of retaking on educational and labor market trajectories. Narrowly missing a preferred program cutoff triggers a 44% increase...

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The short- and long-run impact of comparative noncognitive skills

Goulas, Sofoklis - 2026

This study documents a new fact about educational production: Students' relative standing in noncognitive skills has lasting effects on educational trajectories that are distinct from those of absolute skill levels and cognitive achievement. Using administrative data covering the universe of...

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Non-formal education and life satisfaction

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2026

Lifelong learning is increasingly recognized as important for individual well-being, but causal evidence on this relationship remains scarce. This paper evaluates the effects of non-formal adult education on life satisfaction by exploiting the substantial expansion of courses at East German...

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Non-formal education and life satisfaction

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2026

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Parental educational styles with externalities

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2026

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Parental educational styles with externalities

Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2025

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Assessing the impact of grade retention : a cautionary tale of exclusion restriction violations

Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Weiland, Christina; … - 2026

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The long run effects of a teacher-focused school reform on student outcomes

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Eren, Ozkan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2026

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring head start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe - 2026

The Head Start program, launched in 1965 and targeted to children from disadvantaged backgrounds, remains the largest early childhood care and education (ECE) program in the United States and the only one deployed at the federal level. As such, the Head Start literature spans several decades and...

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring Head Start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe R. - 2026

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Human capital and labor market effects of elite schooling in England, Scotland, and Wales : new causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

Yu, Zhanhan; Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos; … - 2026

We estimate the causal effect of attending elite schools in England, Scotland, and Wales on human capital and labor market outcomes for cohorts of children from the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study. For identification, we employ a nonparametric...

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Parental leave quotas and workplace spillovers

Ahlzén, Malin Tallås - 2026

This paper studies how parental leave quotas may foster a more gender-equal division of parental responsibilities by increasing fathers' uptake of leave beyond the reserved amount. Specifically, the paper examines whether the introduction and expansion of 30-days parental leave quotas in Sweden...

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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality : evidence from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa

Kujundzic, Ana - 2026

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The Power of neighbourhood : how social interactions shape household technical efficiency in fostering children's scholastic achievement

Agee, Mark D. - 2026

This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood social interactions on a household's ability to produce their child's scholastic achievement. A time-varying stochastic frontier model and a spatial Durbin model are used to estimate endogenous and contextual neighbourhood effects on household...

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Life-cycle effects of women's education on their careers and children

Shenhav, Na'ama; Sandler, Danielle H. - 2026

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Life-Cycle Effects of Women's Education on their Careers and Children

Shenhav, Na'ama; Sandler, Danielle H. - 2026

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The effect of vertical educational mismatch on wages : evidence from Indonesia's waged sector

Hakim, Dani Rahman; Rosini, Iin - 2026

This study is the first to analyse the determinants and wage impacts of vertical educational mismatches in the wage sector in Indonesia. This study is also the first to examine the wage effect of vertical educational mismatch based on the fields of study, gender, and spatial conditions of the...

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

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Peer gender composition and university climate

Griselda, Silvia; Profeta, Paola; Savio, Giulia - 2026

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Graded for life? : long-run impacts of high-stakes exam thresholds

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2026

We estimate the effect of receiving a higher grade on an academic high school exit exam on labor-market outcomes in adulthood. Identification is based on comparing students on different sides of grade cutoffs. Using nationwide Finnish register data, we find that better grades lead to higher...

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Trends and patterns in childlessness by age, race, ethnicity, and education in the United States : a research note

Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel; Root, Leslie; Alexander, Monica - 2026

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Beyond occupational sorting : how skills shape task allocation and immigrant disadvantage

Tverdostup, Marina; Walter, Dora - 2026

Immigrants across Europe earn less and work in lower-quality jobs than natives, but the mechanisms underlying these disparities remain poorly understood. This paper asks whether immigrant disadvantage reflects barriers to accessing good jobs or skill deficits that persist even within similar...

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The Effects of Digital Literacy on Wages in Europe and Central Asia

Nebiler, Metin; Park, Kyunglin - 2026

Digital skills are becoming increasingly more important in the labor market as demand for them is increasing in all sectors. This paper explores the determinants of digital skill acquisition and estimates the impact of digital skills on wages in developing countries by using the latest round of...

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Educational Access and Learning Outcomes in Myanmar

Fukao, T.; Katwal, S.; Kyaw, A. P.; Thwin, M. M. - 2026

Myanmar’s education system stands at a critical juncture, shaped by overlapping crises and significant resilience. Following years of conflict, political instability, and economic stress, recent data reveal both progress and persistent vulnerabilities. Primary school enrollment has largely...

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Intergenerational transmission of education among indigenous people in Canada

Neill, Christine - 2026

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Does government spending on education increase intergenerational education mobility? : the case of Free Compulsory Basic Education in Ghana

Branson, Nicola; Whitelaw, Emma - 2026

This paper examines whether Ghana's education reforms have increased intergenerational education mobility. Using the newly constructed Ghana Education and Labour Series-a harmonized dataset combining multiple rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey-we track intergenerational education...

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Marital rights, education, and labor supply : evidence from a natural experiment in France

Demont, Timothée; Ziparo, Roberta - 2026

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Succeeding in higher education: effect of an academic support program on first-year university student's academic achievement

Altepe, Cansu; Chetail, Fabienne; Dehon, Catherine - 2026

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Tatsiramos, Assortative mating and education gradients within and across generations

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2026

We develop a model that links education-outcome gradients to intergenerational transmission, distinguishing joint from parent-specific channels under assortative mating. Using Danish administrative data on family quartets, we estimate the own education-outcome gradient and, in addition,...

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The long-term outcomes of school absence

Smyth, Emer; Moya, Anna; Darmody, Merike - 2026

International research has pointed to the longer-term impact of school absence on outcomes in early adulthood. This study uses Growing Up in Ireland data to document the consequences of absence in primary and post-primary education for a range of outcomes in (early) adulthood, including...

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When persistence signals exit : identity, legitimacy, and indigenous educational persistence

Semenov, Aggey - 2026

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Developing math talent worldwide : evidence from a global RCT

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2026

Exceptional talent accounts for a disproportionate share of innovation, yet many individuals with exceptional ability may never realize their potential. Whether expanding access to advanced training generates learning gains remains an open question. We study this using a randomized controlled...

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The legacy of China’s one-child policy on human capital : how being raised by an only child affects cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

China's One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy's start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren's human capital. We find...

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Match effects and the gains from alternative job assignments : evidence from a teacher labor market

Laverde, Mariana; Mykerezi, Elton; Sojourner, Aaron; … - 2026

This paper studies the relative importance of teacher-student match effects and general teacher effectiveness in producing student learning, and quantifies gains from alternative teacher assignments. We estimate a framework that separates these components, allowing match quality to vary with...

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Classrooms as workplaces : how student composition affects teacher health

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas; … - 2026

Work-related burnout and stress-related sickness absence have become increasingly prevalent, but evidence on which workplace features shape workers’ mental health remains limited. Using population-level Swedish register data covering all lower- and upper-secondary teachers from 2006–2024, we...

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Classrooms as workplaces : how student composition affects teacher health

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas; … - 2026

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Classrooms as workplaces : how student composition affects teacher health

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas; … - 2026

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Peer effects in classrooms : evidence from random assignment

Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2026

We apply a novel approach to estimate the effects of exposure to peers with different attributes by using the predetermined leave-own-out attributes of all classmates in randomly assigned classes. This strategy allows a behavioural interpretation of the peer effect over and above the pure...

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Gender gap in high-stakes exams : what role for exam preparation?

Bonneau, Cécile; Dousset, Léa - 2026

In this paper, we show that gender gaps in performance observed in high-stakes exams, relative to low-stakes exams, are partially shaped by the context of exam preparation. We examine the role of exam preparation using data from French elite STEM higher education programs. First, we document a...

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Stereotypes, financial literacy, and confidence : an information provision experiment

Peter, Julia; Schuetz, Jana - 2026

Financial literacy is an important prerequisite for making informed financial decisions, but it remains low, especially among women and older people. Internalized stereotypes can undermine confidence and subsequently affect behavior in financial matters, leading to suboptimal decisions. This...

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Stereotypes, financial literacy, and confidence : an information provision experiment

Peter, Julia; Schuetz, Jana - 2025

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Supporting integration in schools : evidence from a randomized targeted intervention

Mühlrad, Hanna; Sibbmark, Kristina; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2026

We evaluate a two year school development program aimed at enhancing the quality of education for recent migrant students and Swedish language learners through customized packages of professional development for teachers and support of school man-agement. We exploit the pairwise randomized roll...

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

This study examines how parenting styles predict children's lifetime outcomes. Using a Swedish dataset which combines rich survey information on parenting styles with administrative records tracking children over five decades, we find that authoritarian parenting is negatively associated with...

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

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How parenting styles shape children's lifetime outcomes

Dohmen, Thomas; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2026

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School-level patterns of non-attendance, 2022/23 and 2023/24

Ponce, Anna Moya; Smyth, Emer; Darmody, Merike - 2026

School attendance has become a topic of international concern, particularly in light of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to long-lasting challenges in attendance (Dee, 2024; Fuller et al., 2024; Lichand et al., 2024; Tomaszewski et al., 2023). Some evidence suggests that...

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Human Development Index (HDI) of Indian states : 2022-23

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Jadhav, Vivek - 2026

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2026

This paper provides large-scale evidence linking the economic effects of childcare programs to social skills measured in adulthood. We examine Finland's first national public childcare program, and document that it increased parental labor supply - through retirement - while reducing the...

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2026

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2025

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A peer like me? : early exposure to high achievers in math and later educational outcomes

Pagani, Laura; Pica, Giovanni - 2026

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