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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

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Anticipated children and educational investment : evidence from the one-child policy in China

Raiber, Eva - 2021

Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...

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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills

Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2019 - This version: August 12, 2019

Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...

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Determinants of Romanian international migrants' remittances

Goschin, Zizi; Roman, Monica; Popa, Aura - 2011

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in remittances of international migrants, as their strong recent increase shed more light on the effects at both micro and macro level. The remittances not only contribute to the well-being of the receiving households, but are also a large...

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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 35-48

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The long-run effect of Mexican immigration on crime in US cities : evidence from variation in Mexican fertility rates

Chalfin, Aaron - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 220-225

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Homeownership of immigrants in France

Gobillon, Laurent; Solignac, Matthieu - 2013

We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France using a large longitudinal dataset over the 1975-1999 period. For people staying on the territory the whole time (ie. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in...

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Forming of the new ethnic image of Saint Petersburg

Krasnov, Anton I.; Zhitin, Dmitriy V. - 2015

Ethnic and migration processes in Russia after the collapse of The Soviet Union have significantly changed the ethnic composition of major Russian cities. On the one hand, we see continuing of assimilation of most national communities which historically lived in the largest Russian cities...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by their reason of immigration. The...

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