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 …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

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 …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms …

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 …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …