progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …

natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …

We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland … teachers are less likely to continue to higher education. …