income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …

operates through the job loss-induced reduction in household income …

displacement are an important mechanism of the effects on children, highlighting the importance of policies that provide income …We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … approach studying impacts on education as well as other key dimensions of children's lives. First, leveraging mass layoffs for …

of interest.We find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on the educational outcomes of their children. To identify the direction … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational … attainment fell well below parents but recovered a decade later when the economy was booming …