assignment of students into a treatment (Bachelor) and control group (Diploma). We account for potentially remaining selection … bias by estimating a 2SLS model using the share of first-year Bachelor students among all students as an instrument. Our …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … educational attainment of students from less advantaged family background and low-ability students who are at greater risk of … leaving school. Moreover, the schools that would yield the highest final test scores for these students provided they do not …

It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …

-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children …

by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

to parents produces further large mathematics benefits for young left-behind children, about 0.30 standard deviations. A … county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old … low-cost investment in better feedback thus brings significant achievement gains especially for disadvantaged children …