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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly … assigned neighborhood increases compulsory school GPA by 0.9 percentile ranks. This magnitude corresponds to a tenth of the gap … overall share of immigrants in the neighborhood has a negative effect on GPA. -- Peer effects ; ethnic enclaves ; immigration …

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Peers, neighborhoods, and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 67-95

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Exploring the impact of interrupted education on earnings : the educational cost of the Chinese cultural revolution

Meng, Xin (contributor); Gregory, Robert G. (contributor) - 2007

"During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...

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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007

"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey data collected in 2000, after 7 years of operation of the program. Using propensity score...

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