Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning … disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children in Spain perform … significantly worse at school than their older peers and – key to causal interpretation – that for children born in winter this …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families … program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …