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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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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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greater for students in schools that faced relatively longer closures, boys, immigrants, and disadvantaged students …. Educational losses may translate into significant national income losses over time. …
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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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This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...
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-in-difference models, where female students act as a control group, and show that a reduction (increase) in the length of the army service …
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results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and …-girl schools. These findings are based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35 thousand students from …
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students. However, this may come at a cost since the existing literature emphasises the negative association between …. Specifically, for three consecutive years, students at two Belgian universities, in more than ten different study programmes, were … surveyed on their multitasking preferences and academic performance. Then, these results were merged with the students' exam …
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