opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin … groups have closed most of the education gap with the children of natives …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U … is not present for very young children. We next examine differences in specific parental teaching activities such as … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered … competition on the growth rate of student achievement. The estimates suggest that extending competition to all students would …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little … research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not …

proceed by using the large variation across birth cohorts in income security entitlements in Canada that arise from reforms to …-being while controlling for other factors that affect well-being over time and by age. We examine measures of income, consumption …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

with between-cohort comparisons of students at schools with small numbers of gifted children per cohort, to evaluate the …. Since most schools have only a handful of gifted students per cohort, the majority of seats are filled by high achievers …-gifted participants, concentrated among black and Hispanic students, who gain 0.5 standard deviation units in fourth grade reading and …