This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data … for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability. The results … show that children whose fathers teach at third level or whose mothers teach at second level do better and these effects …

result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort studies, evidence was … parents’ height and weight using one of the datasets. No evidence of any such relationship is found. …

has examined the impact of basic skills and schooling on income. Estimating a Mincer human capital model we find that …

/SES gradient can be explained by differential performance at second level which also explains the gap between the sexes. Students … from white collar backgrounds do significantly better in their final second level exams than the children of blue …

to low socioeconomic status (SES) students using a natural experiment which exploits the time variation in the expansion … treatment is based on SES rather than ethnicity. Evaluating the effectiveness of programs targeting disadvantaged students in … and final year graduation rates, with the impact often stronger for higher ability students. We find similar patterns of …

This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control … improvements in student’s mathematics scores. Only the results for the United Kingdom are statistically significant. …