With the COVID-19 pandemic, students around the world faced a disruption of unprecedented intensity. In Italy as in many other countries, for several months emergency remote teaching was the only possible form of schooling. The impacts of the COVID-19 on student achievement could be heterogeneous, depending notably on teachers’ digital instructiona...
Malawi has experienced slow and uneven progress in school progression and completion rates, thus there is need to rethink the approaches needed for reforming education systems. Mothers are more likely to invest in children’s nutrition and well-being and take primary responsibility for children’s education. However, the association between women’s e...
This research analyzes the emergent literacy and reading skills of a cohort of children in grade 1 in the French longitudinal study from childhood (ELFE). The aim is twofold: (1) to describe of novice readers' profiles (N=14 470); and (2) to examine the relationships between the adapted designs and literacy performance (N=1 705). Two related areas ...
Parental emotional support, alongside material and temporal support, is an important determinant of children's subjective well-being and academic success. However, not all children benefit from the same level of parental support, and there are major differences depending on families' socio-economic status and child gender. Using the PISA 2018 surve...
This paper presents comparative information on the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in literacy skills at age 6-8, drawing on harmonized national datasets from France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We investigate whether understanding of comparative SES gradients in early-to-mid childhood depends on...
This article examines the impact of private school attendance on a range of outcomes during adulthood. Students are followed for seventeen years after they enter the sixth grade. The effect of private schooling on educational and labour market outcomes is estimated using propensity score matching. Private schooling has a positive effect on the like...
Several contrasting hypotheses have been formulated about the potential effects of bilingualism on children’s cognitive development and their educational success. Yet, few studies empirically test such hypotheses, particularly outside of the US context. In this paper, we use a recent, nationally representative survey of adults living in France (the...
The aim of this article is to assess whether the track attended in upper secondary education affects student competencies in Italy, by disentangling the genuine effects of track choices from selection biases related to the characteristics of students enrolled in different tracks. We contribute to the literature by relying on a more detailed measure...
Students and parents choose among high school tracks based on the assumption that academic tracks will offer a better preparation for university while vocational tracks will make the transition in the labour market easier, if students do not have a tertiary degree. We assess whether this assumption holds also when considering the long-term occupati...
We investigate whether grants improve the academic outcomes of students from socioeconomically disadvantaged families and, by this way, contribute to reducing inequalities of educational opportunities. Differently from most previous studies, we focus on Italy, a context with high dropout rates and prolonged duration of higher education studies. To ...
