individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children …Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter … pronounced among children from upper-income families. We do not find that the relationship between entrance age and outcomes … reflects a heightened ability to learn or greater physical maturity among older children, the most common interpretations of …

, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within these countries, by gender, at different ethnic subgroups. Evidence is …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the …

range, with a focus on gender-specific parental responses to this negative shock. Using data from a nationally … with brothers. Gender-biased human capital investment by families tends to amplify the harmful effects for girls, while …