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This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio … mediation analysis suggests that the effect of paternal unemployment is not due to the loss of income, but relates to the …
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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …
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that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …
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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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, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
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