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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in a model of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower...

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Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...

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Job Status, International Migration and Educational Choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Ahsan, Md. Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; … - 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...

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Constrained School Choice in Egypt

Krafft, Caroline; Elbadawy, Asmaa; Sieverding, Maia - 2017

This paper examines patterns of school choice in Egypt from primary through higher education. We use a mixed-methods approach that combines survey data with qualitative in-depth interviews to explore schooling decisions. Some private and religious schools exist, but we find that in most...

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Adverse Childhood Circumstances and Cognitive Function in Middle-aged and Older Chinese Adults: Lower Level or Faster Decline?

Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2021

We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys...

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Shacklean Uncertainty and Cultural Embeddedness as Innovation Constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur’s innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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The Impact of Internship Experience During Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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