the production function, they invest more in higher-achieving children. Resources are important, as constrained parents … developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in …

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension … about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic? We answer this question by …

inequality concerns over children’s final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …

-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the … academic performance of their higher-achieving classmates. We find that the test scores of non-treated children in treatment … schools increased by 0.108 of a standard deviation compared to similar children in control schools. We interpret the reduced …

-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational support to low-achieving students affects the … academic performance of their higher-achieving classmates. We find that the test scores of non-treated children in treatment … schools increased by 0.108 of a standard deviation compared to similar children in control schools. We interpret the reduced …