The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … child behavioural problems explain, in part, the association between parental SES and child school grades for mathematics … problems. Adverse parenting and behavioural problems are, in turn, associated with low school grades. Our findings also show …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …

heterogeneity. Results show that socioeconomic peer effect, both at school and district levels, positively and significantly …

The international surveys of pupil achievement - PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS - have been widely used to compare … surveys, and especially their variation across countries. We investigate this issue drawing on data from PISA and PIRLS …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …