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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …
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administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …
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Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and …
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens the skills-base. Vocational and tertiary education do not always … professional development, and ensure its equitable distribution; strengthen the work-based component of vocational training; and … ensure that tertiary education provides the right skills. Beyond education, effective re-skilling and up-skilling programmes …
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of uppersecondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …
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