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Social background's effect on educational attainment: does method matter?
Wolbers M.H.J.; der, Velden R.K.W. van; Büchner C.I.R. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
Social background directly impacts educational choice and attainment, but also influences choice and attainment indirectly by affecting school performance. Boudon (1974) described this relationship as primary (indirect) and secondary (direct) effects of social stratification. Based on this...
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement. A decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors
Golsteyn B.H.H.; Schils T. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2014
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444749
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How can education policy improve income distribution? an empirical analysis of education stages and measures on income inequality
Keller, Katarina R.I. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2010) 2, pp. 51-77
This paper examines the individual effects of primary, secondary and higher education on income distribution, using different measures of investment rates in education: enrollment rates, public expenditures and public expenditures per student, in each education stage. The panel data method is...
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The impact of parental migration on children's school performance in rural China
Zhao, Qiran; Yu, Xiaohua; Wang, Xiaobing; Glauben, Thomas - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 43-54
. Any attempt to identify the impact of parental migration on children's school performance may encounter the problem of … generation. Based on a bivariate probit model, the results show that compared to neither parents being migrants, migration of the … father reduces the rank of a child's math score by 8.37%, and migration of the mother reduces the rank by 23.30%. …
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Zur landesspezifischen Erfassung des Migrationshintergrunds in der Schulstatistik - (k)ein gemeinsamer Nenner in Sicht?
Kemper, Thomas - 2016
Der Beitrag gibt Auskunft über den Stand der Erfassung von Migration in den amtlichen Schulstatistiken der Bundesländer … migration background will be presented and differentiated by the specific definition of migration background in the federal … federal school statistics into a national school statistic. Based on the available migration attributes the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622179
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Zur landesspezifischen Erfassung des Migrationshintergrunds in der Schulstatistik - (k)ein gemeinsamer Nenner in Sicht?
Kemper, Thomas - 2016
Der Beitrag gibt Auskunft über den Stand der Erfassung von Migration in den amtlichen Schulstatistiken der Bundesländer … migration background will be presented and differentiated by the specific definition of migration background in the federal … federal school statistics into a national school statistic. Based on the available migration attributes the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443814
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Low-skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools
Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-ling - 2009
This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268982
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Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools
Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822703