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Malcolm, Michael - 2017

Using a unique pairing of household survey data and geolocational conflict data, we investigate the relationship … between local conflict intensity and the disciplinary methods employed by Iraqi households. We find that parents in high-conflict … document an association between violent conflict and child maltreatment and, to our knowledge, the first that document changes …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

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Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2011

We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data included information about mathematics and reading...

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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees – particularly among under-represented minorities – is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children

Furtado, Delia - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

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Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development

Campbell, Stuart - 2019

We examine the relationship between parental ethnic identity and cognitive development in ethnic minority children. This aspect of parental identity may shape children's cognitive outcomes through a direct influence on parenting behaviour, or by mediating parental access to social resources....

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Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Refugee Children in Sweden : An Outlook on Demography, Education and Employment

Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2015

The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...

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How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?

Sai, Ding - 2016

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

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