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infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … suggestive evidence of a negative effect of the refugee shock on infant and child mortality. However, we find that this is a …
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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do...
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Turkey hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. The arrival of Syrian refugees has significantly changed the relative abundance of different skill groups in Turkey and the labor market conditions. This paper examines how this massive refugee influx affects native working-age children's...
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toward understanding the need for targeted programs addressing child well-being among the refugee population, we analyze, in … health and nutrition for a large refugee and native population. We find no evidence of a difference in infant or child … conditions in the source country prior to migration rather than deficits in access to maternal and child health services within …
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
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associated with a reduction in excess female child mortality, or a reduction in son preference …
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sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …
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We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
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Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects...
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