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The slippery slope from pluralistic to plural societies

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2021

examining school friendship networks in five European countries with recent immigration. Our results highlight the force of …

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School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism : evidence from European countries

Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020

This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network …, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics …

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School racial segregation and late-life cognition

Lin, Zhuoer; Wang, Yi; Gill, Thomas M.; Chen, Xi - 2024

relationship between school racial segregation and later-life cognition remains underexplored. We examined a nationally sample of … measuring school segregation, multilevel analyses revealed a significant negative association between school segregation and … significant among Black participants for all outcomes. Given the rising trend of school segregation in the US, educational …

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Optimally targeting interventions in networks during a pandemic : theory and evidence from the networks of nursing homes in the United States

Pongou, Roland; Tchuente, Guy; Tondji, Jean-Baptiste - 2021

tolerable infection incidence level. Using unique data on the networks of nursing and long-term homes in the U.S., we calibrate … the networks, those located in deprived counties, and those who work for a profit. We also find that U.S. states with a …

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The role of social identity and perceived discrimination in human capital formation : evidence from India

Gupta, Isha - 2022

This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing on a region from India where social identities are defined along the lines of castes and religious groups. It investigates the evolution of gaps across social groups in...

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Social identity and STEM choice : evidence from higher secondary schooling in India

Kumar, Anand; Sahoo, Soham - 2021

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the higher secondary level of schooling in India. We analyze the choice of science stream that is a crucial determinant of subsequent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...

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Early-life circumstances and racial disparities in cognition for older Americans : the importance of educational quality and experiences

Lin, Zhuoer; Ye, Justin; Allore, Heather; Gill, Thomas M.; … - 2024

.2% of the disparities in cognitive score and 48.6% in cognitive impairment. Notably, school racial segregation (all …

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...

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Birth in hard times when you belong to minorities

Bertoli, Paola; Grembi, Veronica; Nguyen, The Linh Bao - 2020

Combining a unique dataset of birth records with municipal-level real estate information, we assess the impact of the 2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The...

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