adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

A growing number of central authorities use assignment mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that … reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms incentivize students to strategically … from a deferred acceptance mechanism that assigns students to more than 1,000 university-major combinations in Chile …

informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a … in college attendance. Effects are largest for students of lower socioeconomic status and robust to controls for … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … parents, 31% for the 2013 cohort chose this option. Our hypothesis is that the declining availability of 'matched jobs' that … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I … American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …-10 percent more than their marginally rejected but otherwise identical counterpart. Marginally admitted students pay no …

interventions targeting sleep. In a field experiment among U.S. university students, we show that incentives for sleep increase both …

students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at a relatively broad range of outcomes, including college and graduate …

Colleges compete to attract students by investing in amenities such as athletics, dormitories, and student activities … bottom of the achievement distribution and driven by in-state students and students attending during seasons when the team …

rankings, and investigate how such policies can improve students' welfare in a Pareto sense. Pooling affects the equilibrium … allocation of studentso colleges, which hurts some students and benefits others, but also affects the effort students exert. We … admissions in Turkey. We find that a policy that pools a large fraction of the lowest performing students leads to a Pareto …