Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …

income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …) capable to reduce income inequalities thirty years later. …

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …

portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For … education, and c) networking activity of parents. While the first two variables exhibit a declining trend in all countries …