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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment
Ermisch, John - 2000
parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …
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The complementarity of language and other human capital : immigrant earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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Intergenerational social mobility and assortative mating in Britain
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002
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Immigrant adjustment in Israel : literacy and fluency in Hewbrew and earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gastón - 2000
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...
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New evidence on classroom computers and pupil learning
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001669386