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Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students : A Story of Language or Ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M. - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
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The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants are Relatively Skilled
Seah, Kelvin - 2016
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the … organise their educational systems, have a crucial bearing on how immigrant students affect their peers …
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The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Zölitz, Ulf - 2020
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
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Sitting Next to a Dropout : Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers
Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …
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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
Ohinata, Asako - 2012
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
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Learning About the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs : Evidence from Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda - 2017
We study the implementation of Bolsa Familia, a program that conditions cash transfers to poor families on children's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which...
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Girls Helping Girls : The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices
Schøne, Pål - 2017
the impact of female peers on students' grades and choices of STEM subjects. We find that more female peers in lower …
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Beyond the Average : Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2014
Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039603
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Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Nie, Peng - 2014
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity are controlled for, it is evident that such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045832
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On the Mechanisms of Ability Peer Effects
de Gendre, Alexandra; Salamanca, Nicolas - 2021
assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314819