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Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children : having immigrant children in the classroom may sometimes, but not always, harm educational outcomes of native children

Jensen, Peter - 2015

Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...

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Chapter 1. Nature and Nurture Effects On Childrens Outcomes : What Have We Learned From Studies of Twins And Adoptees?

Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1-30). 2011

There is a rich history of using data from twins and from adoptees to control for genetic influences and thereby examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature and for a variety of outcomes including IQ scores and...

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The impact of immigrant concentration in schools on grade retention in Spain : a difference-in-differences approach

Pedraja Chaparro, Francisco; Santín, Daniel; Simancas, Rosa - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 19/21, pp. 1978-1990

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School enrolment of first- and second-generation immigrant students in Italy : a geographical analysis

Bertolini, Paola; Lalla, Michele; Pagliacci, Francesco - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 94 (2015) 1, pp. 141-159

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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?

Bossavie, Laurent - 2018

Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...

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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015

enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …

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The impacts of shortening secondary school duration : shortening secondary school duration may increase the skilled workface in aging societies

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

The main goal of secondary school education in developed countries is to prepare students for higher education and the labor market. That demands high investments in study duration and specialized fields to meet rising skill requirements. However, these demands for more education are in...

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Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the start of the academic year. Previous research shows that the difference is most pronounced early in pupils' school lives, but remains evident and statistically significant in...

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Same-sex role model effects in education

Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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Chapter 4 Immigrants and Their Schooling

Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 155-187). 2006

-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. Finally, the recent literature suggests than any concern that educational …

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