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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. 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 and...

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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

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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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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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure

Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006

Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...

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The impact of self-selection on performance

Kiessling, Lukas; Radbruch, Jonas; Schaube, Sebastian - 2018

-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We conduct a field experiment in physical education classes …

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Better off on their own? : how peer effects determine international patterns of the mathematics gender achievement gap

Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: November 2020

IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …

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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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