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

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when …. -- educational mobility ; kindergarten ; age of school entry ; age of tracking ; immigrants … intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …

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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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The effect of school starting age on special needs incidence and child development into adolescence

Balestra, Simone; Eugster, Beatrix; Liebert, Helge - 2017

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...

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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility

Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

PISA and linked register data from Switzerland, we find that students who had private tutoring before the transition are …

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High-ability influencers? : the heterogeneous effects of gifted classmates

Balestra, Simone; Sallin, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement combined with psychological examination records, we...

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Out of the shadows and into the classroom : immigrant legalization, hispanic schooling and hispanic representation on school boards

Sabet, Navid - 2023

I exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized millions of Hispanic migrants in the USA …, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … public schools with greater exposure to IRCA migrants. This effect is driven by increased Hispanic enrollment, while whites …

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Who benefits from universal child care? : estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Culture and tax structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012

-generation immigrants to the US as an instrument for the degree of postmaterialism in their ancestral countries. Estimations with this …

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Recessions and occupational match quality : the role of age, gender, and education

Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2020

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

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