about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … parental inputs and peers, and where parents can affect the peer group by restricting who their children can interact with. We …As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct …

(pre-reform) - for good students from less affluent household - on the optimal schooling decision. For the students who …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …