stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … how endogenous responses in parents' and children's educational investments generate a close link between economic … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …

PISA test. This procedure enables proper over time comparisons. We estimate the effect of circumstances children are born …

math) and does not vanish when children grow up to age 10. Conventional estimates are instead smaller because they are …

consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys …

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in …