child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … in parental background. Once we control for education, family, residence and industry related choices, differences in the …

creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants …-language learner (ELL) student population and over 60 % of immigrants are from Latin America and the Caribbean. While past research …

, are high. This persistence is correlated with high returns to education, relatively low progressivity in public … investments in education, and inequality of opportunity. An index of inequality of opportunity (including dimensions beyond an …, circumstances explain below 15 % of the observed variance in education, in Chile, they amount to almost half the explained variance …

Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to … compare the employment trajectories of different cohorts of immigrants and natives and find that those who arrived before the … work as Spanish unemployment rates skyrocketed. In addition, although many immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and …

follows an instrumental variable (IV) approach, instrumenting parental education with years of compulsory schooling. I find … some evidence of a causal relationship between parents’ and children’s education. The magnitude of the estimated effect is … large: an additional year of parental education raises the child’s education by 0.44 of a year. I also find that maternal …

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … paternal, and stronger effects on sons than daughters. Using IV to simultaneously model the endogeneity of parental education …

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …