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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores

Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020

Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented...

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Birth order and social outcomes, England, 1680-2024

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life chances? An extensive genealogy of 428,280 English people 1680-2024, with substantial sets of complete families, suggests that birth order had little effect on social outcomes...

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Chapter 1. Nature and Nurture Effects On Childrens Outcomes : What Have We Learned From Studies of Twins And Adoptees?

Sacerdote, Bruce - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1-30). 2011

There is a rich history of using data from twins and from adoptees to control for genetic influences and thereby examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature and for a variety of outcomes including IQ scores and...

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with...

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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?

Card, David - 2021

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce … the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …

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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of Second-Generation Immigrants

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2021

We analyze the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighborhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of second generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...

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Institutional determinants of intergenerational education transmission : comparing alternative mechanisms for natives and immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

We use census data on 26 Swiss cantons to determine the association of educational institutions with the intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and school earlier and when tracking occurs at a later age. In...

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Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

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High school choices by immigrant students in Italy: evidence from administrative data

Aktas, Koray; Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; … - 2021

We investigate the educational choices of first- and second-generation immigrantstudents at the transition between lower-secondary school and high school byexploiting a large longitudinal dataset of about 50,000 students in Italy. We findthat immigrant students are less likely to choose...

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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany

Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018

In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...

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