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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …

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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education

Schüller, Simone - 2013

immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism …

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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …

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Maternal education, divorce, and changes in economic resources : evidence from Germany

Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas - 2016

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers’ economic resources. The results shed new light on two opposing theoretical positions that have informed research on social inequality in the consequences of divorce. Recent extensions of the “diverging...

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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our ﬁndings imply signiﬁcant … spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we ﬁnd no evidence for returns to education …

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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Gender differences in residential mobility : the case of leaving home in East Germany

Geißler, Ferdinand; Leopold, Thomas; Pink, Sebastian - 2012

This paper investigates gender differences in the spatial mobility of young adults when initially leaving their parental home. Using individual data from 11 waves (2000-2010) of the SOEP, we examine whether female home leavers in East Germany move across greater distances than males and whether...

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The effect of maternal education on offspring's mental health

Graeber, Daniel; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2019 - This version: March, 2019

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To identify the causal effect of maternal education,...

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Health effects of instruction intensity : evidence from a natural experiment in German high-schools

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Reif, Simon - 2017

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health...

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