where we can follow children over time, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter school. Our results …

. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. Two different societies with the same income …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

of children from poorer families. …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments …

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from … on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …