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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15-17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year … school calendar and have implications for policies targeted toward women's and teenage children's health and well-being …