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difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …
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typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …
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typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …
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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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Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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difference in favor of father's education over mother's education. …
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immigrants of German descent and foreign origin persons. Education is a key indicator for future economic and social perspectives …
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A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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