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receiving welfare payments was about twice as high as the respective share for the entire population. Poverty head count rates … (based on a poverty threshold of 50 percent of median equivalent income) clearly increased over this period from about 10 …
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examines differences in outcomes based on child socioeconomic background by focusing on the heterogeneous effects for migrant …, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however …Because the value of preschool child care is under intensive debate among both policymakers and society in general …
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This paper provides new evidence on the long-term benefits of Head Start using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. I compare siblings who differ in their participation in the program, controlling for a variety of pre-treatment covariates. I estimate that Head Start participants gain 0.23...
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extent do inputs, practices, and child characteristics explain this variation? To answer the first question, I use a … assess the role of observed inputs, practices and child characteristics in generating this variation, focusing on inputs …
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extent do inputs, practices, and child characteristics explain this variation? To answer the first question, I use a … assess the role of observed inputs, practices and child characteristics in generating this variation, focusing on inputs …
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Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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