objectives, aspirations and desires, in particular concerning education and the school. The objective of this working paper is to … Brazil between 1997 and 2007, but that there was a decrease in age-grade distortion and an increase in formal education …

’ education or with other indicators of their parents’socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life – the education of the …

that increase educational attainment reduce early fertility? This paper investigates whether increasing mandatory … legislation aimed at improving educational outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers. …

We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents’ involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents’ involvement in children’s education, indicating cultural complementarity …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. Is this because parental education … actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more … able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This Paper proposes to answer this question by …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … determining child outcomes, while the education of the surviving parent becomes a stronger factor. Moreover, within the group of … families that lost a parent, this pattern intensifies when a child loses a parent earlier in life--the education of the …