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Beyond the Average: Ethnic Capital Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …

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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

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Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland

Ansala, Laura; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

the former Soviet Union, the disadvantage in education reverses and differences in criminal sentences disappear once we …

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Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2020

-white interracial marriages. Different from the previous studies that focus only on the role of individual education levels in …. The relative importance of three mechanisms through which education may affect intermarriage probability is examined: (1 … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …

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Romania: Ready for online learning?

Dinculescu, Corina Georgeta - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been … necessary in the field of education, to limit the spread of the virus (like in all the fields affected by the pandemic). One of … these measures - the closure of schools, universities and other education institutions and the shift to online learning …

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Ability composition in the class and the school performance of immigrant students

Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2023

Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this …

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Ability composition in the class and the school performance of immigrant students

Meschi, Elena; Pavese, Caterina - 2023

Using longitudinal data from the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (INVALSI), this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546657

What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...

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