. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset … selection of US-born students, especially among White and comparatively affluent students, in response to the presence of … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students … tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of …

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

This study examines the effects of negative equity on children's academic performance, using data on children attending … selection into initial mortgage terms. In contrast to the existing literature on foreclosure and children's outcomes, we find … that Florida students with the highest risk of negative equity exhibit significantly higher test score growth. These …