Children of immigrant parents constitute a growing share of school cohorts in many OECD countries, and their … and second generation non- OECD immigrants in Norway. We show that children of immigrants, and particularly those born … outside Norway, are much more likely to leave school early than native children. Importantly, this gap shrunk sharply over the …

. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

final years of schooling among neighbouring children and school mates. We find a clear trend of declining influence of … change in the neighbourhood effect. Motivated by the fact that neighbouring children typically go to the same school, we … estimate school mate correlations for children born in the 1960s. The overall impact of factors shared by children who …

Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents …

Parents influence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural … the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children growing up in the same local community …. Sibling correlations are estimated to be a little lower than for the US, while correlations between neighbourhood children in …