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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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Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries … migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly … informal payments to public school teachers. This fact is at odds with a positive income effect due to migration. We argue that …
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Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …
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sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die … Eltern zu Hause mit den Kindern verbringt substituiert. Die Eltern reduzieren auch die Zeit für Freizeit und soziale Kontakte …
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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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Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the … administrative data on landing records matched with subsequent income tax records that also allows for the linking of the records of … parent's subsequent income in Canada. …
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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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class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …
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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 stratifi cation literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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