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This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...
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that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
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We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …
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whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic …
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of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …
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of Population for the years 1991 through 2006. We focus on those migrating as children, to assess their process of … through which age at immigration affects fertility. College graduates arriving to Canada anytime before adulthood behave as …
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(and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves,(2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain …
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of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between immigrants and their Canadian born children … second generation children, and if anything negatively correlated. Finally we find that the intergenerational transmission of …
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county, then 1.9 additional black migrants made the same move on average. For white migrants from the Great Plains, the … average is only 0.4. Networks were particularly important in connecting black migrants with attractive employment …
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