Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children’s schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with …

declines and increasing number of the share of low performing students across European countries. Results of previous national … share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric …

children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …

parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …

parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …

parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to … childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …

We investigate the racial gap in test scores between black and white students in Britain both in levels and differences … across the school years. We find that there is an increasing racial gap in test scores between ages 7 and 11, and a …