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Explaining the evolution of ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2019
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138442
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170281
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Crossing boundaries and time : an exploration of time allocation, emotional well-being of immigrants in the United States
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Lagravinese, Raffaele - 2023
This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States …. The results reveal that when viewed through the evaluation lenses of the general US population, immigrants engage in less … assessments, immigrants are more optimistic and perceive these activities as associated with higher levels of happiness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318984
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Immigrants' demand for informal and formal education : evidence from US time use data
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 4, pp. 473-501
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013469950
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Snooze or lose : high school start times and academic achievement
Groen, Jeffrey A.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2017
Many U.S. high schools start classes before 8:00 A.M., yet research on circadian rhythms suggests that students' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school districts have moved to later start times for high schools based on the prospect that this would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763924
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024663
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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility
Yum, Minchul - 2016
This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492161
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Migration and consumption
Misuraca, Roberta; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - Draft: April 2024
, and trade, as well as native consumption responses. Consumption patterns reflect how migrants integrate into their new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552525
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The Second Shift : Assimilation in Housework Time Among Immigrants
Hwang, Jisoo - 2016
.S. immigrants. The gender gap in housework time narrows from first to one-point-five to second generation, where assimilation is … that there is assimilation in the burden of the second shift --- household work --- in addition to that in immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150405