Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage …'s life and the importance accorded by the individual to formal schooling for children. The correlation is robust to … education of Roma children need to reckon with the influence of Roma community norms on individual choices. …

dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a … neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and …

dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a … neither Dutch-speaking children nor dialect-speaking children are affected by the share of dialect-speaking peers in the …

Identity can be an important driving force for educational performance. Immigrants and their children face the … challenge of identifying with their host country’s culture. This paper examines whether young immigrants and their children who …

This paper studies the determinants of children's scores on tests of cognitive achievement in math and reading. Using … and Hispanic children. The estimated model captures key patterns in the data, such as the widening of minority-white test … score gaps with age, which is most pronounced for black children. The parameter estimates indicate that home inputs are …