explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants …-language learner (ELL) student population and over 60 % of immigrants are from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research …

cross-sectional data. In contrast, I use data from a national longitudinal education study to calculate achievement gaps in …

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …

-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants … migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …