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experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously … exposure in both, the origin country and the destination region. Moreover, French (Italian) exposed refugees only benefit from …
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the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance … heterogeneities between the household and the closest IDP camp, as well as the child's birth year. We find that children residing … professional employment and a significant increase in vaccination intake for affected children. …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
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, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …
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We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
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This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily … sleep duration, while children of mothers with lower education or unemployment exhibit a subtle impact. These insights …
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children's mental health and education performance. These effects appear more pronounced for refugees that newly arrive or are … the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees … traumatic experiences of refugees interacted with time as an instrument for refugee mental health. We find that worse mental …
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using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable … same characteristics as the refugees, using panel data for 2003-2013 to capture unobserved heterogeneity. …
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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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