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Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade-off?

Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans - 2007

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by …

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Time preferences and lifetime outcomes

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - 2013

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly … Swedish longitudinal dataset that links information from a large survey on children's time preferences at age 13 to …

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to … in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967

Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321458