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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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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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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …

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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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Immigration and the neighborhood

Saiz, Albert (contributor); Wachter, Susan M. (contributor) - 2006

What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have … the number of new immigrants in a neighborhood using lagged densities of the foreign-born in surrounding neighborhoods …

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Immigration and the neighborhood

Saiz, Albert; Wachter, Susan M. - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 169-188

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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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Where the streets have a name : income comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Fleche, Sarah - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...

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Family, community and long-term earnings inequality

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish neighbors using population register data for Denmark. We exploit differences in the timing of family...

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