affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long … not by changes in family income or father’s labor force participation …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …

intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …

that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students’ computer skills and may increase the …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …