even in the second generation. For the children of the foreign-born, parental schooling plays no role in making educational … difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …

differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 … year-old children as much as white parents do, then the racial test score gap in reading and mathematics would be reduced …

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 … completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children …

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

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 … public schools than for those who choose to pay for private education. …