Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … adult socioeconomic status. This paper presents new evidence of the importance of family income in the formation and … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings …

average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family … effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …

The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …