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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …
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refugee influx affects native working-age children's school enrollment and employment outcomes using a difference … stems from the transition of children who used to combine school and work into school only. School enrollment increases only …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
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-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures … suggestive evidence of a positive impact on children's social-emotional development. Examining the channels, we find that both …
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We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform...
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