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Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these ….For the case of forced migration, the results show that asylum-seeking children who arrived in Sweden as a consequence of the … polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in …
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the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay …The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives …. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have not yet turned 18. However, the largest increase over the latest …
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We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from … former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration … migration had grades and high school completion on par with natives. Poor initial school performance among teenage refugees was …
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in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …
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math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …
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educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence is mixed, with some studies finding negative effects, and others …
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