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Kim, Young-Joo.

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Educational achievement: The role of siblings, Head Start, and Catholic schools.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Educational achievement: The role of siblings, Head Start, and Catholic schools./
Author:	Kim, Young-Joo.
Description:	83 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1899.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3314216
ISBN:	9780549633372

Educational achievement: The role of siblings, Head Start, and Catholic schools.
Kim, Young-Joo.

Educational achievement: The role of siblings, Head Start, and Catholic schools. - 83 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1899.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007.

My dissertation examines the effectiveness of Catholic schools, an early childhood development program, Head Start, and the effect of sibling structure on educational attainment.

ISBN: 9780549633372Subjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

Educational achievement: The role of siblings, Head Start, and Catholic schools.
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520 $a The first essay studies the effects of attending Catholic schools on labor market outcomes and attempts to identify factors that contribute to their success. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, Wisconsin public school data and the unique school quality data for Catholic schools that I collected for this study, I find that Catholic schooling has large and significant effects on mid-career earnings. The empirical results also extend previous findings by showing that most of the Catholic school effects are explained by teacher quality and curriculum. Among these school quality variables, I find that teachers' education and the math courses students took during their high school years matter the most.
520 $a The second essay examines Head Start, a federally funded preschool program for economically disadvantaged children. When evaluating Head Start's effects, I pay particular attention to measurement error in parents' reports on program participation and selection bias. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, I first find that there is substantial measurement error in parental reports of Head Start attendance. After I control for measurement error and selection into the program with propensity score matching, I show that there appears to be small or no effect of Head Start for white, black and Hispanic children during the first four years of schooling after the program.
520 $a The third essay investigates the effect of sibling structure on schooling. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that men and women are differently affected by birth order. There is a first-born son premium for men's schooling, but in general, birth order is positively associated with more schooling for both men and women. That is, there is birth order effect on schooling that favors later borns except for the first-born men. To explain this birth order effect, parents' human capital investment decisions are considered and it is found that parents' expectations about children's earnings and their own earnings can lead to gender-specific birth order effects.
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