educational achievement for a representative sample of Irish 9 year olds. Students are partitioned into four groups according to … decompositions show consistently significant effects for income, number of childrens books in the home and maternal age. …

-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income …

result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort studies, evidence was … parents' height and weight using one of the datasets. No evidence of any such relationship is found. …

There is a well-established socioeconomic gradient in cognitive test scores for children. This gradient emerges at very … early ages and there is also some evidence that it can widen as children age. We investigate this phenomenon with two … longitudinal cohorts of Irish children who take such tests at ages ranging from 9 months to 17 years, using maternal education and …

/SES gradient can be explained by differential performance at second level which also explains the gap between the sexes. Students … from white collar backgrounds do significantly better in their final second level exams than the children of blue …