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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360290
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-Being of Children Left Behind : Initial Evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052560
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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-Being of Children Left Behind – Initial Evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145947
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills : new evidence
Hebsaker, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9
, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506884
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Intergenerational Mobility and Self-Selection of Asylum Seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael - 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865737
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034744
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 122 (2012) 561, pp. 727-753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669615
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Ova and out : using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college
Smith, Jonathan - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 166-180
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361118
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223045