. While native students are mostly influenced by the average quality of their peers, immigrant children are detrimentally … paper investigates whether the ability of classmates affects the educational attainment of immigrant students. We focus not … strategy addresses students' endogenous sorting into classes by exploiting the within-student across-subjects variation in …

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … outcomes. Our analysis draws on administrative data on the entire population of students in fifth grade collected by the … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …