This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

Do parents alter their investment in their child's human capital in response to changes in school inputs? If they do … children's education. The use of out-of-school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen … by the teacher or the principal of the school and not by parents, but they are a consequence of student misbehavior. To …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … improved the students' mathematical and ethnomathematical skills. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics, of 0 ….12-0.18 standard deviations (s.d.), is comparable to preschool programs that teach intercultural bilingual classes in low- and middle-income …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a …

This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the … impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is …