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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967
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Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade-off?
Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans - 2007
Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by … theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family … negative impact of family size on grades in compulsory and secondary school. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317964
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Businesses, buddies and babies: Social ties and fertility at work
Hensvik, Lena; Nilsson, Peter - 2010
We examine the influence that co-workers' have on each other's fertility decisions. Using linked employer employee panel data for Sweden we show that female individual fertility increases if a co-worker recently had a child. The timing of births among co-workers of the same sex, educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273970
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2010
We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321400
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321458
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Social Interactions and Unemployment
Hedström, Peter; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Åberg, Yvonne - 2003
This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is specified in which the social and psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The theoretical analysis reveals social multiplier effects, and shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321622
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Parental unemployment and children's school performance
Öster, Anna - 2006
secondary school. We control for family and individual heterogeneity by means of lower secondary school GPA. The huge variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317923
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Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school performance in Swedish, English and Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by the teacher is compared with results on comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317909
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Does Tax Evation Affect Unemployment and Educational Choice?
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2003
ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321585
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The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage marriage and births in Turkey
Kirdar, Murat G.; Tayfur, Meltem Dayıoğlu; Koç, İsmet - 2010
new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274427