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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected on children and their families … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than …
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International surveys of educational achievement are typically analysed in isolation from each other with no indication as to whether new results confirm or contradict those from earlier surveys. The paper pulls together results from four surveys to compare average levels of achievement,...
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strong in determining outcomes. -- Intergenerational mobility ; children ; Canada ; United States … and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of …
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and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …
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, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants … of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …
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education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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