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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
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The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee …
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first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …
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first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …
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In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
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suicidal ideation in the children with foreign-born mothers. We find that the advice of mothers (teachers) is 3.2% (5 ….1%) points more effective in reducing suicidal ideation in these children than in those with native Korean mothers. These imply … to improve their capacity to advise these children …
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096051
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096092
in the same year that the family migrated. I then use this measure to study the dividing line between the first and …-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth …
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