Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China …. To accompany the policy, boarding facilities have been constructed that allow (mandate) primary school-aged children to … and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and … controlling for selectivity of households with children as potential beneficiaries of educational transfers, we find evidence that …

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and … controlling for selectivity of households with children as potential beneficiaries of educational transfers, we find evidence that …