persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

It is widely documented that U.S. students score below their OECD counterparts on international achievement tests, but …

rate versus just the steady-state income level - matters less than academic discussions suggest. We close by discussing …

The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … pupils' academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using …

simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …

OECD countries 1992-2007. We focus on risk sharing through savings, factor income flows, and capital gains. Risk sharing … through factor income and capital gains was close to zero before 1999 but has increased since then. Risk sharing from capital … gains, at about 6 percent, is higher than risk sharing from factor income flows for European Union countries and OECD …