Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school … controlled trial with C&C in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to students in grades 1-8. Program participation … decreased absences in grades 5-7 by 4.2 days, or 22.9 percent, but with no detectable effects on students in grades 1-4. We also …

There is growing concern that it is too difficult or costly to substantially improve the academic skills of children … year). Our first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Saga's tutoring model with 2,633 9th and 10th grade students in … in math and non-math courses. We replicated these results in a separate RCT with 2,710 students and found even larger …

boost achievement, these gains emerge only for students who attend lottery schools. Attendance at a coveted Grade A screened …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …

needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for …. Students enrolled in the schools designated for closure are eligible for "grandfathering" into the new schools; that is, they … attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar …

There are large gaps in reading skills by family income among school-aged children in the United States. Correlational … evidence suggests that reading skills are strongly related to the amount of reading students do outside of school. Experimental … reading program called Project READS, which induces students to read more during the summer by mailing ten books to them, one …