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"First in family" university graduates in England
Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki; Adamecz, Anna - 2019
Universities around the world are attempting to increase the diversity of their student population. This includes individuals who are "first in family" (FiF), those who achieve a university degree, but whose (step) parents did not. We provide the first large scale, quantitative evidence on FiF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105013
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Inequality of Learning Amongst Immigrant Children in Industrialised Countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2021
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325343
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160623
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710
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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318896
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …-achieving schools as an instrument for school choice corroborates the results. The robustness of the results points toward a causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307980
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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six
Borghans, Lex - 2015
. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …-achieving schools as an instrument for school choice corroborates the results. The robustness of the results points toward a causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016293
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The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339085
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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment
Ermisch, John - 2000
This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268746
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment : Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121757