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

. 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 …

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 …

returns to education accrued to their parents; for girl students, a lower fraction of the return comes to their parental …In this paper we examine whether students' and teachers' identity play any role in the learning outcome of students … to schools at remote locations. For students, the difference between male and female members comes from the differential …

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily … sleep duration, while children of mothers with lower education or unemployment exhibit a subtle impact. These insights …

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 …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … that the "optimal" amount of time that children and adolescents should spend physically active each day varies by the …

in children and adolescents. Using over 50 thousand time use diaries from two cohorts of Australian children spanning … over 16 years, we first document that children sleep significantly less on days with longer daylight duration, partly by … sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By …