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Education as a tool for the economic integration of migrants

De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016

evidence on student performance in international tests showing that children with an immigrant background display worse results …

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The effect of immigration on the school performance of natives : cross country evidence using PISA test scores

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi … is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.8 percent to … natives. There is also evidence that "conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils" reducing the dispersion of this …

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The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives : Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi … is small: doubling the share of immigrant pupils in secondary schools from its current sample average of 4.8 percent to … natives. There is also evidence that - conditional on the average share of immigrant pupils - reducing the dispersion of this …

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The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

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Why is the timing of school tracking so heterogeneous?

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2005

Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...

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Dynamics of the gender gap for young professionals in the corporate and financial sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2009

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Educational standards in private and public schools

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Rocco, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2005 - Stand: Februar 2005

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly effort, secondary education needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools, as in Epple and Romano, 1998. An alternative configuration,...

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The power of the pill : oral contraceptives and women's career and marriage decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2000

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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