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Lin, Zhuoer; Wang, Yi; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024

Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences stemming from structural racism. However, the relationship between school racial segregation and...

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Extended families and child well-being

LaFave, Daniel; Thomas, Duncan - 2014

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Does mass deworming affect child nutrition? : meta-analysis, cost-effectiveness, and statistical power

Croke, Kevin; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hsu, Eric; Kremer, Michael - 2016

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Goals and gaps : educational careers of immigrant children

Carlana, Michela; La Ferrara, Eliana; Pinotti, Paolo - 2017

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First and second generation impacts of the Biafran war

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Impact of early childcare on immigrant children's educational performance

Corazzini, Luca; Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a …

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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...

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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019

We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...

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Family unification, siblings, and skills

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

brothers, sisters, and adult children of U.S. citizens. Under the proposed system, those relatives could not obtain U.S. visas …

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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019

larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …

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