strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a …

regular siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment between individuals, with parental education … factors that do not correlate with parental education. Strikingly, despite pervasive changes in the distribution of … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …

Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different …

benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that …