income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …

. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …

operates through the job loss-induced reduction in household income …