-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality …

-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in … 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 …

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 …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and … income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … in grade attainment, a key finding is that large socio-economic differentials in the earnings expectations of university …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and … prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment …

education, and c) networking activity of parents. While the first two variables exhibit a declining trend in all countries … portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …