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Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter?

Aoki, Yu - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Do Class Closures Affect Students' Achievements? Heterogeneous Effects of Students' Socioeconomic Backgrounds

Oikawa, Masato; Tanaka, Ryūichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; … - 2023

This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic backgrounds of students' households. Utilizing the administrative data of students from a city in the...

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The Economics of Hypergamy

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband's earning capacity systematically exceeds that of his wife. We provide a theoretical framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the...

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Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China

Sato, Hiroshi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in China : Evidence from the Charls Pilot

Strauss, John - 2010

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015

-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …

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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michèle - 2020

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …

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Villages Where China's Ethnic Minorities Live

Gustafsson, Björn - 2006

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

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Caste, Courts and Business

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022

We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...

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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction : Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children’s Educational Attainment Across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel

Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...

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