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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

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Interethnic marriage: a choice between ethnic and educational similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through … which education affects marriage choice. First, educated people may be better able to adapt to different cultures making …

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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - 2007

are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …

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The impact of college graduation on geographic mobility: identifying education using multiple components of Vietnam draft risk

Malamud, Ofer; Wozniak, Abigail - 2008

selection into college might also drive the relationship between college education and geographic mobility. We explore this …

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The rise and fall of the American Jewish PhD

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

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Migration, remittances and children's schooling in Haiti

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - 2008

In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some communities regardless of whether they have household...

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The effect of high school employment on educational attainment: a conditional difference-in-differences approach

Buscha, Franz; Maurel, Arnaud; Page, Lionel; … - 2008

Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric...

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What is a peer? The role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects

Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - 2008

We employ a standard identification strategy from the peer effects literature to investigate the importance of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects. We use detailed information on friends in the Adolescent Longitudinal Health Survey (Add Health) to construct two network...

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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008

Literature examining immigrants' educational disadvantage across countries focuses generally on average differences in educational outcomes between immigrants and natives disguising thereby that immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group. The aim of this paper is to examine educational...

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