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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013
achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229481
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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450111
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Apply yourself : racial and ethnic differences in college application
Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2015
than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295622
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TRAP'd teens: impacts of abortion provider regulations on fertility & education
Jones, Kelly; Pineda-Torres, Mayra - 2021
Targeted regulations of abortion providers (TRAP laws) are the fastest growing abortion restriction in the U.S. These often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698101
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Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City
D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886999
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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What divides the first and second generations? : family time of arrival and educational outcomes for immigrant youth
Hull, Marie - 2022
in the same year that the family migrated. I then use this measure to study the dividing line between the first and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358971
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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma" : Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2009
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860349
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2011
– even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522524
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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children
Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523484