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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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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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Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...

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Neighbourhood effects on migrant youth's educational commitments : an enquiry into personality differences

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2013

In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often...

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Neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - 2013

performance. -- neighborhood effects ; housing policy …

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Neighborhood effects in education

Del Bello, Carlo L.; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …

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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices

Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...

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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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The moderating effect of higher education on intergenerational spatial inequality

Vuijst, Elise de; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2015

It is well-known that socioeconomic outcomes and (dis)advantage over the life course can be transmitted from parent to child. It is increasingly suggested that these intergenerational effects also have a spatial dimension, although empirical research into this topic remains scarce. Previous...

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