little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

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 …

High school students from disadvantaged high schools in Toronto were invited to take two surveys, about three weeks … apart. Half of the students taking the first survey were also shown a 3 minute video about the benefits of post secondary … education (PSE) and invited to try out a financial-aid calculator. Most students' perceived returns to PSE were high, even among …

graduating seniors at low-transition schools. Over three workshops, students were guided to pick programs of interest that they … exiting students to make the transition easier and more salient. On average, the program increased application rates from 64 … increase in two-year community college programs. The greatest impact was for students who were not taking any university …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

'100 percent' expansion, effective in 1991, extended Medicaid eligibility to children born after September 30, 1983 in … children born just after the cutoff date, and a similar or slightly smaller rise in overall health insurance. It also increased … the fraction of children in the newly eligible group with a doctor visit in the previous year. The '133 percent' expansion …

exerting an even bigger intergenerational effect: at present one-in-ten native born children are in the 'second generation …' born to immigrant parents. In this paper we present a comparative perspective on the economic performance of immigrants and … their children, utilizing data from the 1940 and 1970 Censuses, and from recent (1994-96) Current Population Surveys. We …

Programs that engage young children in movement and song to help them learn are popular but experimental evidence on … and kindergarten students in 47 schools in three U.S. states. We find that treated students scored higher on a test of …