Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)

N Altinok, N Angrist, HA Patrinos - World Bank Policy Research …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality.
The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable …

Defining difference: The role of immigrant generation and race in American and British immigration studies

MC Waters - Migrants and Their Children in Britain, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This article reviews the ways in which Britain and the USA classify and analyse the
integration of immigrants and their descendants. While both societies recognize racial …

Age at arrival and life chances among childhood immigrants

AS Hermansen - Demography, 2017 - read.dukeupress.edu
This study examines the causal relationship between childhood immigrants' age at arrival
and their life chances as adults. I analyze panel data on siblings from Norwegian …

A new international database on education quality: 1965–2010

N Altinok, C Diebolt, JL Demeulemeester - Applied Economics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this article is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the
relative performance of schooling systems around the world. We measure this performance …

Academic achievement and sense of belonging among non-native-speaking immigrant students: The role of linguistic distance

F Borgonovi, A Ferrara - Learning and Individual Differences, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the association between how distant the language spoken by non-
native-speaking immigrant students is with respect to the language of instruction and their …

Immigration: What about the children and grandchildren?

A Sweetman, JC van Ours - Handbook of the economics of international …, 2015 - Elsevier
Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social
development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the …

Child's age at migration, high school course-taking and higher education

A Gorodzeisky, Y Feniger, H Ayalon - Children and Youth Services Review, 2023 - Elsevier
The study examined the effect of child age at migration on high school course-taking and
higher education attainment, focusing on Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrants who …

[HTML][HTML] Where to live? English proficiency and residential location of UK migrants

Y Aoki, L Santiago - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify the causal effects of English proficiency on residential location
choices of immigrants. Based on the ideas that (i) immigrants whose mother tongue is …

[PDF][PDF] Ankomst och härkomst–en ESO-rapport om skolresultat och bakgrund

H Grönqvist, S Niknami - Rapport 2017: 3, 2017 - ec.europa.eu
En allt större andel av eleverna i svenska skolor är födda i ett annat land än i Sverige. Det är
sedan tidigare känt att elever med utländsk bakgrund i genomsnitt klarar sig sämre i …

Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

SP Kerr, WR Kerr, KE Smith - 2024 - nber.org
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam
who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of …