measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …

school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …

-pupil expenditure has only a modest relationship with improvement in students' standardised test scores. However, budget allocation …

into music training, we take into account detailed information on parents, which may determine both the decision to pursue …

well as the effects of variables such as age at migration, marital status, the presence of young children, parental …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …