income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …