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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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Do preferences and biases predict life outcomes? : evidence from education and labor market entry decisions

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Herz, Holger; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018

dropping out of upper-secondary education. Further, for students who finish education we show that one month before termination … about human capital acquisition and labor market transition with important implications for education and labor market …

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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success

Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...

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Education, disappointment and optimal policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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