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This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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Research on neighbourhood effects indicates that neighbourhood poverty is related to educational outcomes of youth, however, much less attention is spend on studying neighbourhood and school effects simultaneously. Because the demographic composition of both contexts likely overlaps to some...
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residential mobility, including job opportunities, neighborhood and housing amenities, social networks and housing and moving …
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There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course. Intergenerational transmissions were repeatedly shown for socioeconomic characteristics and (dis)advantage, but recently also for residential neighbourhood status. Previous research from the...
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background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship … siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far … neighborhood effects matter, but are rather small, particularly when compared with the overall importance of family factors …
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evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …
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Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...
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We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by … its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger commuting zones, and the childhood neighborhood status is the …-family comparisons. Our results reveal a hump-shaped relationship between the socioeconomic status of the childhood neighborhood and …
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