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Starting off on the right foot : language learning classes and the educational success of immigrant children
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Schilling, Pia - 2022
This study is the first empirical analysis to identify the causal effect of a separate preparatory language learning class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration into regular classrooms. Employing unique administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435090
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Maternal employment and adolescent development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267643
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Children's schooling and parental migration: Empirical evidence on the 'left behind' generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2010
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … -mainly by fathers - is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269829
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Migrating for children's better future : intergenerational mobility of internal migrants' children in Indonesia
Fatimah, Alfariany Milati; Kofol, Chiara - 2019
Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 … million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration on the second … generation continue to be under-explored. This paper investigates the long-term impact of parents' migration on their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131601
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Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Attend University? Evidence for Canada
Childs, Stephen - 2014
The children of Canadian immigrants from some source regions, Asia, Africa and China in particular, attend university at extraordinarily high rates. Most others participate at lower rates, but still compare favourably with non-immigrant Canadians. In this paper the Youth in Transition Survey is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051497
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210710
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Access to Post-Secondary Education Among the First and Second Generation Children of Canadian Immigrants
Finnie, Ross; Mueller, Richard - 2014
This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-secondary education (PSE) among the children of Canadian immigrants, including both (i) those who came to this country as immigrants themselves by age 15, and (ii) those who were born in Canada to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144168
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Ethnic mixing in early childhood: evidence from a randomized field experiment and a structural model
Boucher, Vincent; Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2021
We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that...
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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias Among Immigrant Children
Akresh, Richard; Akresh, Ilana Redstone - 2021
We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish or English) to quantitatively measure the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325125
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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