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 …

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 …

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

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 …