data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income … expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …

matching education and criminal records from Queensland. Exploiting a dropout age reform in 2006, it defines a series of … regression-discontinuity specifications. While police records show that property and drug offences decrease, education records …

schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …