Search Results - subject:"Immigrant children"

The unknown immigration: incentives and family composition in intercountry adoptions to the United States

Lozano, Fernando Antonio; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2009

Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...

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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …

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The Unknown Immigration: Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States

Lozano, Fernando A.; Kossoudji, Sherrie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel; Jaeger, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …

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Too low or too high? : on birthweight differentials of immigrants in Germany

Milewski, Nadja; Peters, Frederik - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; the … 39 (2014) 1, pp. 3-21

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Neighborhood context and immigrant children's physical activity

Brewer, Mackenzie; Kimbro, Rachel Tolbert - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 1-9

/ethnic and nativity disparities exist in the amount of physical activity that children receive, with immigrant children …'s physical activity. Research interested in improving the physical activity patterns of minority and second-generation immigrant … children should consider how neighborhood context differentially impacts the health and physical activity of children from …

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Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education

Free, Janese L.; Križ, Katrin; Konecnik, Jenny - In: Children and Youth Services Review 47 (2014) P3, pp. 187-197

This exploratory study examines the hardships experienced by migrant students, most of them immigrants or children of immigrants, drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with 20 migrant educators employed in the public school system in Florida in 2013. We examine immigrant...

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Spillover effects of studying with immigrant students; a quantile regression approach

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch … no evidence of negative spillover effects of the classroom presence of immigrant children at the median of the test score …

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The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...

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Immigrant Status, Early Skill Development, and Postsecondary Participation: A Comparison of Canada and Switzerland

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

This paper examines differences in postsecondary-participation rates between students with and without immigrant backgrounds in Switzerland and Canada. For both countries, a rich set of longitudinal data, including family background, family aspirations regarding postsecondary education, and...

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