connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and … that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

eighth and ninth grade students in a financial education programme. In particular, the effect of within-class ability … matching is investigated by forming pairs of students either randomly or based on their abilities. In addition, the paper … studies whether differentiated instruction, in the form of additional instructions for lower ability students, enhances the …