There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...

There are large disparities between the achievements, behaviour and aspirations of children in different neighbourhoods - but does this mean that the place where you grow up determines your later life outcomes? Steve Gibbons, Olmo Silva and Felix Weinhardt outline the findings of a series of CEP...

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...

Der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) oder einer Grundschule stellt für Kinder mit Fluchthintergrund einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Integration und Teilhabe an der deutschen Gesellschaft dar. Im Kontext des Zuzugs von mehr als 890 000 Schutzsuchenden im Jahr 2015 untersucht dieser...

Frauen sind an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen in den sogenannten MINT-Fächern (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik) stark unterrepräsentiert. Der vorliegende Bericht geht der Frage nach, inwiefern eine der Ursachen schon im Grundschulalter zu suchen ist. Auf Basis eines für...

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...