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This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …
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The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …
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class on the academic success of newly immigrated primary school-aged children in comparison to their direct integration … 2019, we use the quasi-random allocation of refugee children to neighborhoods and therewith schools to measure the effect … immigrated children directly into regular classrooms fosters their academic achievement more than schooling them first in …
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students from first-year courses (N = 6954) was offered large incentives (worth AUD 55,000) to attend PASS, which increased … was larger (0.89) for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Instrumental variable estimates suggest that one hour of … estimate is not statistically significant, reflecting limited statistical power. The estimated effect is largest for students …
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further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family … characteristics such as family structure, the incidence of social problems, and parents' educational preferences also play a role … umgebungsbezogenen Faktoren erklärt werden kann. Wir finden überdies, dass der sozioökonomische Hintergrund der Eltern einen großen Teil …
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Economic theory that underlies many empirical microeconomic applications predicts that treatment responses depend on individuals’ characteristics and location on the outcome distribution. Using data from a large-scale Pakistani school report card experiment, we consider tests for treatment...
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returns to citizenship on children’s school performance and skill development. For identification, we use two national reforms … propensity of take-up. Citizenship significantly improves the school performance of immigrant children but has only modest … Fähigkeiten der Kinder von Zugewanderten. Die Identifikation der Effekte beruht auf zwei nationalen Reformen, die die Einbürgerung …
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Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...
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integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of … classroom. Our analysis is based on a comprehensive survey of 4th-grade students in German primary schools, which contains … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school …
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