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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997448
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Parents and Peers : Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes Over Time
de Vuijst, Elise - 2017
There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course. Intergenerational transmissions were repeatedly shown for socioeconomic characteristics and (dis)advantage, but recently also for residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the...
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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood
Boschman, Sanne - 2014
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain neighbourhoods. A factor which has received little attention so far is that some residents will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046651
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Neighborhood Effects in Education
Del Bello, Carlo L. - 2015
evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024897
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Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes : Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
de Vuijst, Elise - 2017
In the Netherlands, obtaining a higher education increases the chance to move to a better neighbourhood for native Dutch adults who grew up in a deprived parental neighbourhood. For non-Western minorities, education does not have this positive effect on socio-spatial mobility. In this study we...
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Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2019
Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic composition of both contexts likely overlaps to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868009
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
Neilson, Chris - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118273
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Weinhardt, Felix - 2013
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088325
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement : Evidence from a Placement Policy
Aslund, Olof - 2009
that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA …
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