-native achievement gaps, but we find evidence for a detrimental impact for less integrated migrants …

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or … limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …

candidates in the School, we exploit a policy change aimed at reducing class size to implement a regression discontinuity design …

school graduates, we explore the effects of time spent on homework on two measures of academic achievement: high school GPA … addition, when we look at homework performed as a sole activity, we find that homework increases high school GPA for boys …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 … in the state. Using our preferred OLS estimates, we find that child labor causes a loss in students' school achievement …. Children and adolescents who do not work have better school performance than students who work. Up to two hours of work per day …

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be … encouraged to complete high school in order to avoid competing with immigrant high-school dropouts in the labor market. I find …