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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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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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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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The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...
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School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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