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The impact of immigration on the educational attainment of natives
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289936
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732074
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500627
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517456
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498389
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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492327
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Length of stay in the host country and educational achievement of immigrant students : the Italian case
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
Using Italian data on language standardized tests for three different levels of schooling we investigate if the observed gap in educational attainments in 1st generation immigrants tends to lower the longer they stay in Italy, and if younger children tend to catch up faster than their older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415267
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985699
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The effect of foreign students on native students' outcomes in higher education
Costas-Fernández, Julián; Morando, Greta - 2022
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of … natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171586
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Pre-School Enrollment : An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
Chiswick, Barry R.; Deb-Burman, Noyna - 2021
characteristics (income and education), immigrant generation, number of siblings, mother's labor supply and country of origin. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319146