The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
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- Helena Skyt Nielsen & Beatrice Schindler Rangvid, 2012. "The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement," IZA Journal of Migration, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 1(1), pages 1-23, December.
- Helena Skyt Nielsen & Beatrice Schindler Rangvid, 2011. "The Impact of Parents’ Years since Migration on Children’s Academic Achievement," Economics Working Papers 2011-16, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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- Marta De Philippis & Federico Rossi, 2016.
"Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences across Countries,"
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Keywords
second generation; immigrant children; scholastic achievement; years since migration; intergenerational mobility; fixed effects;JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-01-10 (All new papers)
- NEP-EDU-2012-01-10 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-01-10 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2012-01-10 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2012-01-10 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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