children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

likelihood for children of uneducated parents to complete primary school. Overall, the evidence suggests that geographic and … differences in mobility reflect spatial sorting or their independent role. To isolate the two, we focus on children whose families …

educational mobility by exploiting within-family variation from children whose families moved during primary school age. While …

poverty among all households and among those with children, and using multiple poverty measures (relative and absolute, pre …

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 …