firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income … the economic background of their parents. This influence on wages is significant and relatively greater than the impact of …

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrollment did not translate into improved performance of the students …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

opportunities in Italy. Our analysis relies on a rich dataset that contains data both on individuals and their real parents, as well …

in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …