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Socioeconomic determinants of children's health in Russia : a longitudinal study

Fedorov, Leonid I. (contributor); Sahn, David E. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Educational attainment: analysis by immigrant generation

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600

The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406870

Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727

Family background, school characteristics and children's cognitive achievement in Madagascar

Glick, Peter (contributor); … - 2008

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Schooling, marriage, and childbearing in Madagascar

Glick, Peter J.; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2011

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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015

Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...

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Determinants of bilingualism among children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014

children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in … the US (native born) and foreign-born children who immigrated prior to age 14 (the 1.5 generation). The analyses are … conducted overall, within genders, and within racial and ethnic groups. Bilingualism is more prevalent if the parents are …

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