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 …

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 …

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 …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

examine the impact of environment on children's outcomes. The behavioral genetics model is the workhorse of this literature … biological parents. Results suggest that both the biological and the nurturing parents contribute a great deal to the … transmission of income and education to their children …

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …