-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …

formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … designed to predict the highest level of education achieved in life. We find that the EA PGI demonstrates stronger effects on … explained by education as a mechanism. We provide suggestive evidence for the mechanisms behind estimated relationships …

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an … children's education. We show that the younger cohorts exposed to the reform are 15.1 percentage points more likely to have …Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access …

measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno … at least one child born in the cohort of 1975-1985 is matched with Ministry of Education records on all those who … of Christian and Druze children are less dependent on their family characteristics compared to Muslim and Jewish children …

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … that an additional semester of exposure to the Free Education Policy reduces the intergenerational transmission of parent … attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …

opportunities on teenage fertility. We find that teenage birth rates decreased by 2.8 percent after the education reform in …

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes …'s education, which has not been examined in previous studies, is particularly important for sons. However, we find a very …