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 …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

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 …

Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit … subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger … subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated …

pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We … fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high school students at … modality (on-site or online). Students offered seats in the STEM summer programs are more likely to enroll in, persist through …