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score while having a negative effect on blacks' test scores. However, the higher the education level of a black teenager … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education …
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score while having a negative effect on blacks' test scores. However, the higher the education level of a black teenager … friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education … with endogeneity issues. -- ethnic minorities ; peer effects ; education achievement ; endogeneity issues …
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … destination, return migration, and ethnic enclaves, among others. Analyses are reported for the immigrant experiences in the US …
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-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …
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, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
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the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
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the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …
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earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and …
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