This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …Kinder, die bei der Einschulung älter sind als ihre Mitschüler, da sie deutlich vor dem Einschulungsstichtag geboren …

returns to citizenship on children’s school performance and skill development. For identification, we use two national reforms … propensity of take-up. Citizenship significantly improves the school performance of immigrant children but has only modest … Fähigkeiten der Kinder von Zugewanderten. Die Identifikation der Effekte beruht auf zwei nationalen Reformen, die die Einbürgerung …

further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family … characteristics such as family structure, the incidence of social problems, and parents' educational preferences also play a role … umgebungsbezogenen Faktoren erklärt werden kann. Wir finden überdies, dass der sozioökonomische Hintergrund der Eltern einen großen Teil …

integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of … classroom. Our analysis is based on a comprehensive survey of 4th-grade students in German primary schools, which contains … detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school …

This article investigates the effects of large groups of first-year students on individual college performance. The … college. The results show that students in large cohorts of freshmen have a lower probability to complete their degree on …-time, partly because students take longer to attain their college degree and partly because more students are forced to de …

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …