birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just after the threshold perform better at the end … of primary school than students born just before it. This translates into increased placement in high ability tracks in … not harm long-term outcomes of children who were, for exogenous reasons, placed in a lower track. …

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

household characteristics (especially household income). The "true'' intergenerational correlation between schooling attainments … and parents' education (after conditioning on observed and unobserved ability) is found to be quite low. Finally, our …