connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

–2018) allowing within country-wave comparisons of Muslim to non-Muslim students across Europe. We provide evidence consistent with … social capital and social identity via increased religious participation and shared experiences among students …

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in nonurban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories. …