This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom …, exploiting the fact that young children learn languages more easily than older children and adults. Using a unique individual …

children in Black families did not explain such racial disparities. Conclusions: The economic gain of parental education on … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these … understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … immigrants in England and Wales. We construct an instrument for language skills using age at arrival in the United Kingdom …, exploiting the fact that young children learn languages more easily than older children and adults. Using a unique individual …