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Lilas Gurgand; Hugo Peyre; Jean Ecalle; Jean-Paul Fischer; Franck Ramus – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
We studied the effect of the number and characteristics of siblings (sex, age) on school achievement in several grades (kindergarten, first grade, and fifth grade), in two large French cohorts, with more than 16,000 children. Running linear mixed-effects models, we find that, independently of socioeconomic status, having more siblings is…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Dana Shay; Yossi Shavit; Isaac Sasson – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examines whether family income in early childhood is related to achievements of Israeli students in standardized tests at primary school. We analyzed data from the Israeli censuses of 1995 and 2008, which include information on family income and socio-economic background of children along with data pertaining to their achievements in…
Descriptors: Poverty, Early Experience, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)