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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …

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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2008

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049

Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor); … - The MIT Press

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education's equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of … suggests that achieving universal primary and secondary education is both urgently needed and feasible. Will the international …

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The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197531