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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902824
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Heterogenous peer effects, segregation and academic attainment
Ana Lugo, Maria - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010218269
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Peer effects on violence : experimental evidence from El Salvador
Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230813
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Impact of early life exposure to environments with unimproved sanitation on education outcomes : evidence from Bangladesh
Joseph, George; Hoo, Yi Rong; Moqueet, Nazia Sultana; … - 2019
Despite Bangladesh's notable progress toward the eradication of open defecation, the country still faces severe deficits in the availability of improved sanitation. This paper analyzes the impact of exposure to unimproved sanitation early in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167885
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Does exposure to other ethnic regions promote national integration? : evidence from Nigeria
Okunogbe, Oyebola - 2018
This paper examines how temporary migration to a different ethnic region affects national integration. It uses original survey data from individuals who were randomly exposed to different ethnic regions of Nigeria during their mandatory national service, the largest program of its kind in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929645
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Gender, ethnicity and cumulative disadvantage in education : evidence from Latin American and African censuses
Tas, Emcet O.; Reimao, Maira Emy; Orlando, Maria Beatriz - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225473
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility … norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833500
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663515
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an … to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434618
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The empty opportunity : local control of secondary schools and student achievement in the Philippines
Lockheed, Marlaine E.; Zhao, Qinghua - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138540