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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students: A story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: IZA Journal of Migration 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-18

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants, especially those with limited English language skills....

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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2011

We study a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...

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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209

Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619201

Peer effects and academic achievement : a regression discontinuity approach

Vardardottir, Arna - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 108-121

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

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The long-run effects of recessions on education and income

Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census …

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Causal effects of education on marriage

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2025

Many nations have experienced both rising education levels and declining marriage rates. However, cross … suggests ambiguous causal effects of education on marriage. This study uses a novel instrumental variable approach and finds … that education decreases the probability of being married for younger persons but not for older persons. However, education …

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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...

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