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This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by gender, race/ethnicity and combinations of race/ethnicity...
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
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comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … that the "optimal" amount of time that children and adolescents should spend physically active each day varies by the …
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in children and adolescents. Using over 50 thousand time use diaries from two cohorts of Australian children spanning … over 16 years, we first document that children sleep significantly less on days with longer daylight duration, partly by … sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By …
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