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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
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. 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 of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …
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We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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relative to white non-Hispanic natives. Some other immigrant and minority groups also made gains relative to white non …
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assigned at birth. Our results demonstrate the precarious economic position of gender minority populations in America. …
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College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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second step, we relate the sign of the impact of a denomination in a country to whether the denomination is a minority in … that country. We find that denominations that are a minority in a country are more likely to be associated with a higher … of denominations on educational outcomes. The finding of the second step is moreover robust to defining minority …
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the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...
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