's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favor of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower …

students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes … coedu-cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …

Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies … exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … comparison of (dis)integration of students with migration background across countries and time. In a second step, (dis …