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We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data included information about mathematics and reading...
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purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno … of Christian and Druze children are less dependent on their family characteristics compared to Muslim and Jewish children … Jewish children from disadvantaged strata face in schools attended by those from affluent strata. Family background is more …
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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 …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …
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Children of immigrant parents constitute a growing share of school cohorts in many OECD countries, and their … and second generation non- OECD immigrants in Norway. We show that children of immigrants, and particularly those born … outside Norway, are much more likely to leave school early than native children. Importantly, this gap shrunk sharply over the …
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math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …
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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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in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...
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This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
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