children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

educational performance of female students, our empirical analysis shows that the gender gap in student progression (number of …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling … the types of primary sampling units. Specifically, we only use non-migrant rural hukou children living in counties in the … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …