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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?
Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020
Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479357
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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the effect of English-intensive instruction on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466666
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Immigrant-Native Substitutability : The Role of Language Ability
Lewis, Ethan G. - 2011
Wage evidence suggests that immigrant workers are imperfectly substitutable for native-born workers with similar education and experience. Using U.S. Censuses and recent American Community Survey data, I ask to what extent differences in language skills drive this. I find they are important. I...
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Everybody's Talkin' at Me : Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers
Brock, William A.; Chen, Bo; Durlauf, Steven N.; Weber, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an environment where heterogeneous agents from various...
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The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance : Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum
Dee, Thomas - 2016
this study, we estimate the causal effects of an ethnic studies curriculum piloted in several San Francisco high schools …
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Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment : Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra
Cortes, Kalena - 2014
We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide - 2014
, staggered introduction of the new curriculum across provinces allows us to identify the effects of the new educational content …. These changes were often effective: study under the new curriculum is robustly associated with changed views on political …
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Algebra for 8th Graders : Evidence on its Effects from 10 North Carolina Districts
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2012
This paper examines the effects of policies that increase the number of students who take the first course in algebra in 8th grade, rather than waiting until 9th grade. Extending previous research that focused on the Charlotte-Mecklenberg school system, we use data for the 10 largest districts...
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The Impact of High School Curriculum on Confidence, Academic Success, and Mental and Physical Well-Being of University Students
Yu, Han - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effect of high school curriculum on various student outcomes including academic … attitudes towards studying and learning. We exploit a curriculum reform in China, the implementation of which started in 2004 … new curriculum pivoted away from the old lock-step course structure where all students took the same courses and only …
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The economics of school choice
Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003
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