intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …

different birth cohorts. Relative inequality of opportunity represents an important portion of total income inequality, with …. This is a quite different age profile from that of inequality of outcomes (income or consumption), which generally … countries, notably Italy, these trends have failed to translate into decreasing inequality of opportunity in the income …

Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the … school system. Overall, the paper finds no effect of the concentration of immigrant students on natives' test scores. However …, although immigrant students who have been in the country for some time have virtually no effect on natives, the analysis finds …