scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

Do parents alter their investment in their child's human capital in response to changes in school inputs? If they do … children's education. The use of out-of-school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen … by the teacher or the principal of the school and not by parents, but they are a consequence of student misbehavior. To …

attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents … and women with highly educated parents has narrowed. We then investigate the role of financial constraints in explaining …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their …