family background. Parental education has had asymmetric effects, positive on attainment and negative on school returns …. Better school quality also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for individuals with poor family … in the production of individual human capital. When school quality and family background are substitutes, an increase of …

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 …

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 …

students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography … contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a …, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this …