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 …

to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …

mothers and fathers, particularly fathers, spend more time with their children, and the variety of activities parents engage …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures …

women. The policy equalizes the educational attainment of urban and rural children substantially. The urban-rural gap in the …

particularly detrimental for students from lower socioeconomic groups - contributing to increased inequality. …

refugee influx affects native working-age children's school enrollment and employment outcomes using a difference … stems from the transition of children who used to combine school and work into school only. School enrollment increases only … for boys, and this is stronger for boys with more educated parents. The incidence of being neither in employment nor in …

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …

of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This study focuses on Syrian refugee children in Turkey and examines the …Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many …