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Population Change and Changing Educational Attainment of Ethnic Groups in the United States, 1980–2000

Wilson, Franklin; Rebhun, Uzi; Rivas, Salvador - In: Population Research and Policy Review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 639-659

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Ketkar, Suhas L.; Dora, Manoj K. - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 4 (2011) 4, pp. 330-344

Developing countries' ability to issue diaspora bonds depends upon the wealth of their diaspora. We use the New Immigrants Survey data to determine the wealth accumulation and assets diversification of recent immigrants to the USA from different regions of the world. Our quantile (median)...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …

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Education and economic growth in the United States: cross-national applications for an intra-national path analysis

Baldwin, Norman; Borrelli, Stephen - In: Policy Sciences 41 (2008) 3, pp. 183-204

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Financing Higher Education in the United States

Tulip, Peter - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

America’s higher education system is among the best in the world. Nevertheless, there is scope for improvement. In … particular, there appear to be substantial financial barriers to higher education despite large government expenditures aimed at …

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Primary and Secondary Education in the United States

Tulip, Peter; Wurzburg, Gregory - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

through upper secondary education. That said, there are a number of areas in which improvements could be made. Though the …

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"Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America"

Behrman, Jere R.; Gaviria, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2001)

, and that mobility in Latin America is strongly associated with schooling levels and expenditures on education. …

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Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education

Free, Janese L.; Križ, Katrin; Konecnik, Jenny - In: Children and Youth Services Review 47 (2014) P3, pp. 187-197

students’ education and, ultimately, social mobility. We find that migrant students face five major challenges that may … adversely affect their education and social mobility: (1) cultural barriers, including language and communication and students … migrant students’ education. Lastly, we discuss our findings in the context of existing scholarship and present implications …

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Effects of child and adolescent health on educational progress

Lê, Félice; Diez Roux, Ana; Morgenstern, Hal - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 57-66

Understanding how childhood and adolescent health may affect schooling is important for understanding the socioeconomic ramifications of poor early-life health as well as the relations between schooling and adult health. Using three waves of U.S. longitudinal data with extensive covariate...

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …

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