. 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 …

-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that these matching effects are … of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred specification. Further …, universities appear to have responded to Prop 209 by investing more in their students, explaining between 23-64% of the graduation …

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …

mother reachers her late twenties, she appears to have only slightly more children, is only slightly more likely to be single …

expectations during high school and beyond. The results indicate that expectations rose for all students with the greatest … data demonstrate that the majority (about 60 percent) of students update their expectations at least once between eighth …

to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered … competition on the growth rate of student achievement. The estimates suggest that extending competition to all students would …

Nearly 60 percent of college students today are women. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative cohort of … eighth grade students in 1988, I examine two potential explanations for the differential attendance rates of men and women …