-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 …

tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …

which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling … the types of primary sampling units. Specifically, we only use non-migrant rural hukou children living in counties in the … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …

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

-in-Differences estimator which uses rural students to control for any common time trend. The 2SLS estimates of 17% and 12% for men and women … earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE as a result of the higher education expansion. …