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Speaking the same language: The effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020
This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255128
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Starting off on the right foot: Language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022
This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438609
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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020
This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257161
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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019
Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314728
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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022
This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435090
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022425
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026463
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178399
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors “import” knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052796
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059112