-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

upgrade and the role of parents' in sons' and daughters' education. …

students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …

income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …) capable to reduce income inequalities thirty years later. …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …

important role. When controlling for attitudes, however, the relative income position remains significant in affecting the … probability of union membership. We also show that there are no significant trends in the relationship between relative income …

in other low- middle-income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …