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 …

children with moderate levels of 'special educational needs' in England. We show that the decentralized design of the policy … generates significant variations in access to remediation resources across children with similar prior levels of difficulty … ineffective for 'treated' children. In the second part of our analysis, we use demographic variation within schools to consider …

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak …

'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for students aged 14 to 18. 49 UTCs have been created since then. We use a spatial …-standard transition age of 14, UTCs dramatically reduce their academic achievement on national exams at age 16. However, for students who …. They also improve achievement in STEM qualifications, and enrolment in apprenticeships. By age 19, UTC students are less …

Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but …

evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social proximity, as measured by similarity in religion, race and family income …

impact has been in more disadvantaged schools and on the performance of middle and high ability students within these schools … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability … background. However, small changes in resources have little or no effect on the "hard to reach" children who have not achieved a …