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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition : Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System

de Haan, Monique - 2011

context scale economies dominated the effects of choice and competition. This points to an often ignored trade-off between … scale and competition …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children, lowering the return to native education and discouraging...

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Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives

Green, Colin P. - 2020

There has been a recent rapid increase in immigration into Europe, specifically in the form of refugees and asylum seekers. This raises a range of social challenges and a particular focus is education and school systems. A growing body of research investigates the impact of immigrants on native...

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Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition …

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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

Heineck, Guido - 2010

Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …

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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...

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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Schüller, Simone - 2012

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian - 2013

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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