. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … scores are associated with individual early school dropouts. It distinguishes between student and school factors and … estimates a model of the propensity to drop out from school between ages 15 and 18. The paper finds that PISA scores are a good …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

education. Although to some extent picking up inherited and acquired skills, our results suggest that if parents exhibit gender …

We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

initial choice of residence. Besides such demographic changes, for more than hundred years Denmark has allowed parents to …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … school …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test scores between ages 7 and 11, and a …