This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …

education, and c) networking activity of parents. While the first two variables exhibit a declining trend in all countries …

progress in uppersecondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track – entering the second year of uppersecondary education – is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end … through the pathway of education and through other mechanisms. The results suggest that educational attainment explains 24 …%-39% of the overall family background effect on earnings in Australia. The mediating role of education seems to be larger for …