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

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 …

school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the educational system from reallocating the best opportunities to all talented …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme …

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 …

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 …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …