East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using … internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in … five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea …

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

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family …. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we …

resources from the effects of pupils? family background, since resources may be allocated in a compensatory manner, and pupils … lower secondary school in Norway. The dataset is rich in performance measures, resource use variables and family background … information from results from national exams and from continuous assessment in class. Controlling for family background, we find a …

incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of destination language … proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It …?s language proficiency, but no effect on their father?s. There is a substantial positive correlation between the language skills …

interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that … allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …