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Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choices and Social Mobility
Piacentini, Mario - 2009
participation, and, ultimately, affect the socio-economic mobility of the rural born …
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The second dividend of studying abroad : the impact of international student mobility on academic performance
Meya, Johannes; Suntheim, Katharina - 2014
, propensity score matching is applied to account for possible self-selection into international mobility. Our empirical analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408494
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Migration enclaves, schooling choices and social mobility
Piacentini, Mario - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416597
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The role of special education in school choice
Cullen, Julie Berry; Rivkin, Steven G. - In: The economics of school choice, (pp. 67-106). 2003
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Does stricter immigration policy affect college enrollment and public-private school choice of natives?
Gunadi, Christian - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 25, pp. 1-26
incentivize them to move to private schools where there are fewer immigrant students. In this article, I attempt to extend our … and secondary schools in Arizona would be higher by approximately 1.1 and 1.7 percentage points, respectively, in the …
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How do crises affect schooling decisions? : evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over "typical" years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003788512
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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280834
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How immigrant children affect the academic achievement of native Dutch children
Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523484
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Immigrant concentration in schools : consequences for native and migrant students
Schneeweis, Nicole - 2013
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and … cohorts within schools and drawing special attention to time trends, the analysis shows that migrant students suffer from …-over effects are particularly strong between students from the same area of origin, indicating that peer groups in schools form …
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The effect of sharing a mother tongue with peers : evidence from North Carolina middle schools
Ahn, Thomas; Jepsen, Christopher - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper provides the first analysis of the relationship between the language mix of Limited English Proficient (LEP) peers and student achievement, using detailed panel data from 2006 to 2012. Percent LEP has a negative association with mathematics and reading test scores, more so for non-LEP...
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