Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents. Comparing the … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behaviour between students from … on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

Much research shows that students take account of their perceived comparative advantage in mathematics relative to …

school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …