comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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 …

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 …

reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement. The estimates are precise enough … the presence of black students in a class, in an of itself, has no effect on achievement. I demonstrate that estimates of …

students respond to their menus' like rational human capital investors. Whether they make the investments efficiently is … aptitude students respond to aid in a way that apparently reduces their lifetime present value. While both a lack of … sophistication/information and credit constraints can explain the behavior of this 30 percent of students, the weight of the evidence …

Many American states require that students lacking basic reading proficiency after third grade be retained and … retained students are compared to their same-age peers, but remain substantial through grade 10 when compared to students in … the same grade. Being retained in third grade due to missing the promotion standard increases students' grade point …