secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …