As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants … migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

Children from disadvantaged families have lower levels of school readiness when they enter school than do children from … implemented more recently in the US, find that the programs do improve outcomes for young children, particularly for those from …

Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large … share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the … educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence is mixed, with some studies finding negative effects, and others …

been stagnant over time despite sharp rises in income. Consumption taxes on status-seeking spending, along with official …