impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique … qualified teachers by increasing their financial investments in their children. The key mechanism is an increase in parents …, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more …

This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and … disadvantage are more likely to be residentially and financially independent of their parents than are their peers growing up in …

We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We … targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents. …

on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children in which information on child … development reported by parents and teachers is linked to each child's results on a national, standardized achievement test. We …