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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...
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Do Classmate Effects Fade Out?
Fletcher, Jason; Ross, Stephen; Bifulco, Robert; Oh, … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2012
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888323
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Peer effects, social multipliers and migrants at school: An international comparison
Entorf, Horst; Lauk, Martina - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2007
This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954394
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Do high school peers have persistent effects on college attainment and other life outcomes?
Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason M.; Oh, Sun Jung; … - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 83-90
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that having more high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931245
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Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
academic performance of native students who remain. To address this question, we analyze education data from North Carolina, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279298
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Neighborhood effects and parental involvement in the intergenerational transmission of education
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education focusing on the interplay between family and neighborhood … the education attained by children. This model proposes a mechanism explaining why and how they are of importance …’s education. A novel finding with respect to previous US studies is that family is of importance for children with highly …
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School Quality and School Location
Terry O`Shaughnessy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
This paper presents a model of school choice with peer effects and scale economies within schools. Parents` perception of school quality depends on resources and on the characteristics of the student body. A network of local schools of uniform quality will be optimal, even though different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604979
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The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health
Fletcher, Jason; Ross, Stephen; Bifulco, Robert - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effects of classmate characteristics on economic and social outcomes of students. The unique structure of the Add Health allows us to estimate these effects using comparisons across cohorts within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800303
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighbourhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136471
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Can ethnic diversity have a positive effect on school achievement?
Maestri, Virginia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
difficult. I exploit the within school cohort variation in ethnic diversity of a rich data-set about primary education in the …
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