We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a … negative correlation between disrupted family structure and children's educational outcome. Looking for alternative …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting. …

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …