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The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants are Relatively Skilled

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...

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Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children : having immigrant children in the classroom may sometimes, but not always, harm educational outcomes of native children

Jensen, Peter - 2015

Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...

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Immigrant educators and students' academic achievement

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …

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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to...

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Local labour market conditions on immigrants' arrival and children's school performance

Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, Janis - 2018

In this paper we analyse the impact of labour market conditions at immigration on school performance for the immigrants …

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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement : Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers

Elder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2015

Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter kindergarten score higher on achievement tests and are less likely to repeat grades or suffer from learning disabilities than their younger classmates. These differences are driven...

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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment : Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to their parents' educational outcomes using data on...

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration …

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Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants : A U.S.-Canada Comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit … immigration policies, at least for the ethnic group (whites) considered in this paper …

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Beyond the average : peer heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

Chakraborty, Tanika; Nottmeyer, Olga; Schüller, Simone; … - 2014

Estimating the effect of "ethnic capital" on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on...

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