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 …

educational attainment. Is it a genetic inter-generational transmission of innate ability from parents to their children (i ….e. nature) or is it the environment that the better educated parents provide for their children (i.e. nurture) that explains …It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of …

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …

, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college … four-year graduation rates. Additionally, higher advisor VA increases high-ability students' likelihood of enrolling and …

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …