well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from … mothers to their children in early childhood. The main channels through which maternal human capital benefits the child …

conclude that educational policy should focus on integration of immigrant children in schools and preschools, with particular …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family … fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …

children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through …. The results show that children´s education is strongly related to household structure, parents´ education, city size, and …

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … with respect to the impact of family background and cohorts. However, there are significant dissimilarities depending on …

classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …