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This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …
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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …
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parental integration measured by parents' years since migration. First, intergenerational earnings elasticities are estimated …
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students, by gender, ability and field of study. The results suggest that time spent on attending courses is positively … associated with grades for females, high ability students and students of Social Sciences and Sciences/Engineering. Spending time … with grades for almost all students. Devoting time for attending tutorials or student work groups is negatively correlated …
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Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, ob Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund im Fach Mathematik schlechter als … vergleichbare einheimische Kinder benotet werden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen hierbei die Primarstufe sowie die weiterführenden … Generation in der Grundschule systematisch schlechter als einheimische Kinder benotet werden, selbst wenn Unterschiede in den …
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We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...
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