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We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …
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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …
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schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …
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Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...
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further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family … characteristics such as family structure, the incidence of social problems, and parents' educational preferences also play a role … umgebungsbezogenen Faktoren erklärt werden kann. Wir finden überdies, dass der sozioökonomische Hintergrund der Eltern einen großen Teil …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
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This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …
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treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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