approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …

only disproportionately high shares of immigrants but also the lowest ability native students. We adopt a value added model … linguistic distance between immigrants and natives, with no apparent role played by ethnic diversity. …

location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants … population with over 60 percent of immigrants coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research suggests negative …

-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants … migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …