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child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and … immigrants and 2) the Child Arrival immigrants (1.5 generation) once old enough to enter the labour market. We employ unique … Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the …
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-provincial migrations. We test four different mechanisms of how parental migration affects child development including parental financial …
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This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of the Educational...
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-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a priori ambiguous in sign. We apply our approach to migrant and … local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
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Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …
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migration and protecting the rights of Filipino migrant workers. However, government interventions and aids to left … migration research including endogeneity, migrant selectivity and community (regional) context, using previously unexamined …
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This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that contains nine essential micronutrients. We utilize a...
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of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
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