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 …

's occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …

administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a … reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as … mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no, to a low level of qualifications. Our results suggest that financial …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in …

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 …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … children with moderate levels of 'special educational needs' in England. We show that the decentralized design of the policy … generates significant variations in access to remediation resources across children with similar prior levels of difficulty …