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 …

This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the … IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …, a significant, but small gender achievement gap amounting to 10% of a country-level standard deviation is confirmed in …

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 …

exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while … schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to …

-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 …