Narrow search
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Cover Image
Speaking the same language: The effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020
This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255128
Cover Image
Starting off on the right foot: Language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022
This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438609
Cover Image
The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: Evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also explain economic outcomes of individuals other than immediate relatives …. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law's country of origin. Employing a new identification strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787975
Cover Image
Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
migrant parents can affect families' time allocation towards education. Previous work on education inputs often implicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412772
Cover Image
Individualism vs. collectivism: How inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594110