Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11...

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Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre

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School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...

Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11...

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The framework of causal decomposition of group disparities developed by Yu and Elwert (2025) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1214%2F24-AOAS1990" target="_top">doi:10.1214/24-AOAS1990</a>&gt;. This pac...