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 …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences …

by exploiting quasi-random variation in the exposure of students to peers with highly-educated parents across cohorts …-run educational outcomes of their peers. Using data from a recent cohort of students in the United States, we identify a causal effect … within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases …

family background is closely related to educational attainment of white children of immigrants in both countries. Moreover … between children of immigrants and children of natives.Results from counterfactual simulations suggest that incentive …

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …

benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …