There is a large gender gap in advanced math coursework in high school that many believe exists because girls are …

Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully … suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of …

migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of a positive impact of parents' years since migration on children … to be more important for math. The effects vary by gender, and family-specific effects influence girls' and boys … of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. We exploit local variation in years since …

interpret the results as being consistent with a scenario where family investment motives drive the behavior of males, while the …

induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the calendar year they turn … seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in children's school starting age. Analyses are carried out using register …

sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

information on parents' assets. We find that enrollment is less responsive than found in other studies and that the presence of …