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Religious practice and student performance: evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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Parental education and wages : evidence from China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
's education primarily captures unmeasured ability. -- Parental education ; wages ; family connections ; unmeasured ability …
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...
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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001
The belief that immigrants generate beneficial externalities in their host countries, specifically in the form of an increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in Heaven's Door (1999, p. 97) as having no empirical...
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People people: social capital and the labor-market outcomes of underrepresented groups
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor);  … - 2005
interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that … the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew …
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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states
Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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Fixed exchange-rate policy and real wage growth : quasi-experimental evidence
Andini, Corrado - 2014
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …
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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills
New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 2015
paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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Intergenerational progress of Mexican-origin workers in the U.S. labor market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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