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

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when … intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and … kindergarten and school entry regimes are held constant. Our results are robust to various alternative specifications. …

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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Recessions and Occupational Match Quality : The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

Addison, John T. - 2020

Although the adverse labor market effects of economic recessions have been well documented, a notable omission in the literature is how recessions impact workersâ€™ job match quality. This paper considers the short and longer-term losses in productivity associated with the job changing...

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Decomposing Migrant Self-Selection : Education, Occupation, and Unobserved Abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...

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Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our evidence is inconsistent with the view that immigrants are a threat to … the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

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Sitting Next to a Dropout - Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our identification strategy relies on quasi-random variation in the proportion of returning dropouts. The estimated average zero effect of dropouts on first-time students’ success...

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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes

Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...

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Small Group Instruction to Improve Student Performance in Mathematics in Early Grades : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021

We report results from a large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiment in 159 Norwegian schools over four years. The intervention includes students aged 7-9 and consists of pulling students from their regular mathematics classes into small, homogenous groups for mathematics instruction...

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COVID-19 and Educational Inequality : How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...

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