population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … status, language proficiency, immigrants' time spent in the host country and patterns of school segregation. Using a …

Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … child starts going to school. For their partners, who experience a much smaller shock in terms of time, the increase in …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …

the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …

system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our model predicts that late tracking and a long pre-school cycle are … beneficial for equality, while pre-school enrollment is detrimental at low levels of enrollment and beneficial at higher levels … background ; student performance ; tracking ; pre-school ; efficiency-equity tradeoff …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old … single parenthood reduces school attainment mainly because it is associated with lower resources (income and time) available …