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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882580
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV approach exploiting variation in age-at-arrival and the linguistic distance between origin and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401695
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Let the Girls Learn! It is not Only about Math It's about Gender Social Norms
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2017
that social gender norms affect parent's expectations on girls' academic knowledge relative to that of boys, but not on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653353
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Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322443
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The Impact of an Un(der)Funded Inclusive Education Policy: Evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658091
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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2014
This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living in a particular host country (and exposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398251
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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation: The role of gender and ethnicity
Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481647
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COVID-19 and College Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
Using an unbalanced panel of close to 12,000 academic records, and difference-in-differences models and event study analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498014
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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living in a particular host country (and exposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095512
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Can the Teaching Style Reduce Inequality in the Classroom? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Xu, Lei; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2024
We investigate the effects of 'lecture-based' (LBT) – i.e. individual work and rote learning - versus 'discussion-based' (DBT) – i.e. participative and focused on student-centred learning - teaching styles on the test scores and socio-economic inequality of middle-school students randomly...
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