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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …
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Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …
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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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