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The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2022
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of Whites in adulthood. We find that, 20 years after exposure, Whites who had more Black peers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367612
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More than just friends? : school peers and adult interracial relationships
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; … - 2016
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580526
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Portrayals of Race and Gender : Sentiment in 100 Years of Children's Literature
Adukia, Anjali; Christ, Callista; Das, Anjali; Raj, Ayush - 2022
allocation. In this paper, we make two contributions: (1) we examine the depiction of race and gender in award-winning children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083340
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Self-Employment and Caring for Children in Europe
Williams, Donald R.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - 2010
Using data unique to the European Community Household Panel survey (ECHP), we examine the hypothesis that self-employed workers spend more time caring for children than do those in other forms of employment. Focusing on ten western European countries, our results provide little support for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070244
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The American family in black and white : a post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality
Heckman, James J. - 2011
inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230267
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation siblings
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2015
We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342868
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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016
In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517636
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Determinants of bilingualism among children
Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - 2014
This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in the US (native born) and foreign-born children who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408822
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Parents' years in Sweden and children's educational performance
Smith, Christopher D.; Helgertz, Jonas; Scott, Kirk - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-17
. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479201