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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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Women's education, marriage, and fertility outcomes : evidence from Thailand's compulsory schooling law

Chaijaroen, Pasita; Panda, Pallavi - 2023

Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and a...

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Books or babies? : the incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2020

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...

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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments

Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...

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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities

Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021

and France, where tracking between schools starts earlier, digital gaps are strongly associated with school types. They …

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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai

Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … into either public schools or lower-quality private schools. The results suggest large contemporaneous peer effects among … schools to public schools. We show that peer effect can be substantially more important than the school effect in accounting …

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Ability composition in the class and the school performance of immigrant students

Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2023

Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not only on the average quality of peers in the class,...

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo; Baert, Stijn - 2017

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...

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