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This paper tries to disentangle the relative importance of family and school inputs on a child's cognitive achievement … States with Canadian data. In contrast to their work that uses state-level indicators of school quality, we estimate our …-level information on the family and school history of the child. The sample used for the analysis is based on the 7- to 15-year old …