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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

attainment than parental education. …

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Wish you were here? : quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of education on attitude toward immigrants

D'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - 2015

natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … assessment of immigration's role in host countries. Our findings suggest that education as a policy instrument can increase …We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European …

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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools

Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017

This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...

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Chapter 4 Immigrants and Their Schooling

Smith, James P. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 155-187). 2006

This chapter deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the US and their education. These issues include a …

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008

of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …) highlighting thereby the different patterns found by immigrant group and achievement measure. -- Education ; educational … inequalities ; immigration ; PISA ; TIMSS ; PIRLS …

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Immigration and student achievement in Spain : evidence from PISA

Zinovyeva, Natalia; Felgueroso, Florentino; Vázquez, Pablo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 25-60

This paper provides the first evidence on the dynamics of immigrant students' achievement following their migration to Spain. Using the data from 2003, 2006 and 2009 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that immigrant students tend to perform significantly...

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Immigrant educators and students' academic achievement

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the possibility that immigrant and native teachers may be...

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The impact of immigrant peers on native students' academic achievement in countries where parents of immigrants are relatively skilled

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...

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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...

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