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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden
Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017
We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039324
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564646
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Cultural Gender Norms and Neighbourhood Exposure: Impacts on the Gender Gap in Math
Ericsson, Sanna - 2020
of cultural gender norms on the gender gap in math, and explore whether this effect is mitigated by municipality gender … effect of cultural gender norms from formal institutions, I estimate the effect of mothers' source-country gender norms on … the gender gap in math for second-generation immigrants. By contrasting the outcomes of opposite-sex siblings, I show that …
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Relations between immigration and adult skills: Findings based on PIAAC
Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik - 2016
The international survey of adult skills, PIAAC, records large differences in numeracy and literacy skills between immigrants and non-immigrants. We examine how these differences relate to the countries' average skills and skill rankings. Immigrants are defined by country of birth or in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695404
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Migration inflow and the school performance of incumbent students
Getik, Demid; Sjögren, Anna; Sundberg, Anton - 2024
We examine how exposure to recent migrants affects the academic performance of Swedish students. To identify the effect …, we exploit variation in exposure to recent migrants between grades in a given school and year, between siblings and over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015165617
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The value of earning for learning: Performance bonuses in immigrant language training
Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2012
arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects on average student achievement. But these were fully driven by … similar for men and women, and present for migrants from different parts of the world. The bonus had a less clear impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321114
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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden: Education, returns to education and overeducation
Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013
We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived before the end of compulsory school-age. We use a detailed disaggregation of background countries, which shows considerable heterogeneity, in overeducation, in returns to education...
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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334321
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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit - 2010
Being the leader in a group often involves making risky decisions that affect the payoffs of all members, and the decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the willingness of men and women to make risky decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274088
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181