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Parental education and wages: evidence from China

Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the...

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Teachers' training, class size and students' outcomes: learning from administrative forecasting mistakes

Bressoux, Pascal; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - 2008

novice teachers are assigned to similar classes, whereas experienced teachers have better students located in better … environments. Hence, in order to match similar students and classes, we focus on pupils with novice teachers and discard those with … students' outcomes. Our findings are: (1) teachers' training substantially improves students' test scores in mathematics; (2 …

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Children of war: the long-run effects of large-scale physical destruction and warfare on children

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2009

During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of large-scale physical destruction on the educational...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

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Health inequality over the life-cycle

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2009

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is determined by three factors: endowments, and permanent and transitory shocks. We employ Simulated Minimum Distance and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the model....

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IQ and family background: are associations strong or weak?

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Jäntti, Markus - 2009

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...

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A new model for equitable and efficient resource allocation to schools: the Israeli case

BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - 2010

utilizing Israeli data. Large scale, nationwide data sets relating students' academic achievement to student background …

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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...

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