difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between white and non-white students in Britain both in levels and … differences across the school years. We find that there is a substantial racial gap in test scores, especially between ages 7 and … 11, and a less severe one between ages 11 and 16. It thus seems that nonwhites are losing ground at school, especially …

We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the … and persistent peer effects in education but peers tend to be influential only when their friendships last more than a …

, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school … encouraged to complete high school in order to avoid competing with immigrant high-school dropouts in the labor market. I find …

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education …The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We … school peers nominated in the first two waves in 1994-1995 and in 1995-1996 on the educational outcome of teenagers reported …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …--1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …

performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students …We discuss how a schooling system’s structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent … educational opportunities (“talent” for short), theory predicts that private schools attract a worse pool of students when …

This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three … record attract and select better students. There is no evidence of an independent effect of having a supervisor who is an …

sometimes be in its interest to democratize by subsidizing education when the economy is closed, incentives to do so disappear …