Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools - on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students with municipality-level information on all-day school...

CEE DP 68 Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School Dominique Goux Eric Maurin July 2006 Published by Centre for the Economics of Education London School of Economics Houghton...