educational attainment. Is it a genetic inter-generational transmission of innate ability from parents to their children (i ….e. nature) or is it the environment that the better educated parents provide for their children (i.e. nurture) that explains …It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of …

indirect path, parents and peers also influence educational outcomes directly. Policy measures that operate on parental …

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …

shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …