ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents' destination countries. This …

. Second, we show that a randomized mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models …

average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …

, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

analysis, we exploit administrative data on whole populations of UK university students for ten graduate cohorts to investigate …