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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170281
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by two widely used standardized math and reading test scores, national …
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approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …
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only disproportionately high shares of immigrants but also the lowest ability native students. We adopt a value added model … linguistic distance between immigrants and natives, with no apparent role played by ethnic diversity. …
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location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …
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creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …
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