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

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

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

find that the benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students and decline when the …

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …