average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …

and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …

achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high …

, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that … of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families …

main contribution is to show that while previously ineligible high-SES students are relatively more likely to enroll in the … highest (academic) track than comparable low-SES students after the repeal, the SES gap in academic track enrollment does not … increase. The reason is that low-SES students, who were already eligible for the academic track before the repeal, increase …