Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We … address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1 …, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a difference-in-difference design that compares children born shortly before and …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents … (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental migration on the health of left behind young children (LBC). While we …. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the incidence of overweight declines gradually since their parents' first migration and …