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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Black South Africans

Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle; Gwatidzo, Tendai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans – changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Gradín, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining … access to high-quality education and the persistence of discrimination against colored workers in the labor market. …

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The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

education, marriage and family. However, the ‘guest worker’ immigrants are not a homogenous group. The analyses reveal large …

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School Drop-Out and Push-Out Factors in Brazil: The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both...

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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy

Altindag, Duha; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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