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The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and … disadvantage are more likely to be residentially and financially independent of their parents than are their peers growing up in …
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countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that …. Institutional arrangements often serve to mitigate the achievement gaps of some migrant students while leaving unaffected or … school sector appear detrimental. Migrant students' achievement relative to their native-born peers suffers as educational …
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document the differential responses of students as a function of their country of residence, parental income, gender, and for …University students have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We present results from the first wave of … expectations regarding three fundamental aspects of students' lives in the pandemic: the labor market, education, and health. We …
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on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children in which information on child … development reported by parents and teachers is linked to each child's results on a national, standardized achievement test. We …
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...
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-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students' standardised test scores. However, budget allocation …
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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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-educated Australian-born mothers and fathers transfer separate and roughly equal educational advantages to their children, outcomes for …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families …
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This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...
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