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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884163
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Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states. Given the perceived … academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279298
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Migrants at School: Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976888
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762128
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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564706
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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Cascio, Elizabeth; Lewis, Ethan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822343
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
Smith, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues … include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the native-born that emphasizes the considerable … diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583155
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106174
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
findings show that higher education leads to a more positive attitude toward immigrants. We also investigate the mechanisms …We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European … natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195832
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Young Women's Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of High School Completion
Lehrer, Evelyn L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The far-reaching consequences of failing to complete secondary schooling are well known. The central questions addressed in this study are: Does religion make a difference in the likelihood of successfully completing the transition to high-school graduation? If so, how large are the influences?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762420