This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …

regular siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment between individuals, with parental education … factors that do not correlate with parental education. Strikingly, despite pervasive changes in the distribution of … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a …