dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a … neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the …

estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educational attainment of children from such marriages. We find that … children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous … Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father. -- Interethnic marriages ; educational attainment …

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 …-over effects from immigrant children to native Dutch children. Immigrant children themselves experience negative language spill …

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these … children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings are robust to a wide range of sensitivity analyses. …

whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic …

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … children do not care about their hours of work at all, while women with children are significantly happier if they have a job …