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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …
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Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We … address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1 …, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a difference-in-difference design that compares children born shortly before and …
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Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the ability distribution, may be provided by behavioural economics. We present a prototypical model where individuals who are potentially loss averse around their expected outcome...
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