We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor … market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university … to those who match their parents with a degree. The effects of coming from a lower educated family are large and positive …

. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …

More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …