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 …

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 …

-educated Australian-born mothers and fathers transfer separate and roughly equal educational advantages to their children, outcomes for …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families …