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Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades since 1994 in Maryland. Our identification strategy is rooted in the...
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. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in education at the time the test is taken reduces their role in accounting … for the wage gaps. We also consider evidence on parental and child expectations about education and on stereotype …
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basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …
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1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
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enrolled in schools. When it comes to those aged 20 or over, the proportion undergoing education is higher among women but a …
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year later delayed the age of first birth by 0.5 years. Parental education and wealth also had important effects on … additional years of schooling of her mother. Overall, the results provided rigorous evidence for the critical role of education … – both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model...
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Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties...
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We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...
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survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated … reap higher returns from their education as a main effect, as well as higher returns to their education from migration than …
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