quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

the religious behavior of the children. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent … friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the … more parents put effort in transmitting their religiosity, indicating cultural complementarity. For non-religious parents …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences …

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient … suggests that our results are not driven by other unrelated trends. Somewhat puzzling, more educated parents also reduced their …

We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We …

university. We focus on two core variables: the share of non-English-speaking students and the diversity within the group of non …-English-speaking students with respect to their linguistic background. English-speaking students are largely unaffected by the ethno …-linguistic classroom composition.Non-English-speaking students benefit from a larger diversity in their performance and increase their …