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 …

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

We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on … attainment between students of different races but also between students of the same race. One interesting aspects of this paper …