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Literacy Gaps by Educational Attainment:A Comparative Study of 19 Countries
literacy skills cross-national variation educational attainment
2016/3/18
Using data of literacy skills among adults aged 26 to 35 from the International Adult Literacy Survey, we compare the degree of literacy gaps between those who completed tertiary education and those w...
Economic Background and Educational Attainment:The Role of Gene-Environment Interactions
Economic Background Educational Attainment Gene-Environment Interactions
2016/3/3
On average, children from less economically privileged households have lower levels of educational attainment than their higher-income peers, and this association has important implications for interg...
Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment
Math Instruction Educational Attainment
2016/3/3
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled ninth graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skil...
Social Capital and Educational Attainment: A Study of Undergraduates in a Faculty of Education
Social Capital Educational Attainment
2015/9/22
This research examines the effects of social capital on the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes among a sample of undergraduate university students. A theoretical model containing 14 varia...
Educational attainment in Australia:a cohort analysis
Educational attainment Australia cohort analysis
2015/4/28
This paper attempts to explain differences in the schooling decisions of two cohorts, namely individuals born in 1961 and 1970. The aims are to establish whether the way in which education decisions a...
The long-term consequences of parental divorce for children’s educational attainment
divorce educational attainment international comparison social mobility tracking
2014/11/26
Background: In this paper we study the long-term consequences of parental divorce in a comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to the heterogeneity of the consequences of divorce for childr...
The Impact of Repealing Sunday Closing Laws on Educational Attainment
Impact Repealing Sunday Closing Laws Educational Attainment
2016/3/9
Adolescents face daily tradeoffs between human capital investment, labor, and leisure. This paper exploits state variation in the repeal of Sunday closing laws to examine the impact of a distinct and ...
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of
immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children
could compete for schoo...
Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment
immigrant children educational attainment
2012/10/22
We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whethe...
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Assortative mating, Education, Household production, Marriage and divorce, Married female labor supply, Minimum distance estimation
2014/3/31
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-a-vis th...
Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
education institutions reform family background
2012/10/18
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the averag...
College Education and the Poor in China: Documenting the Hurdles to Educational Attainment and College Matriculation
Higher education Hurdles to educational attainment China Rural Poverty
2014/3/13
Although universities have expanded in size, it is unclear if the poor have benefited. If there are high returns to college education, then increasing access of the poor to college has important welfa...
Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
ethnic identity second-generation immigrants education
2012/10/19
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the n...
Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
child mental health education Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire measurement error
2012/10/25
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational pro...
Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
regression discontinuity conscription career interruption skill atrophy TS2SLS
2012/10/30
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy an...