Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the …

Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and … their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive … determinant of children's cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been …

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

is explained by student background and subject mix. Based on a simple measure of parental income, we see that students … is competitive to enter, with some universities demanding very high entrance grades. Students specialise early … from higher income families have median earnings which are around 25% more than those from lower income families. Once we …

7% more per year, on average, than state school students some 3.5 years after graduation, even when comparing otherwise …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …

detrimental effect fades out over time. While absence negatively correlates with fi nal education, income and longevity, we only …