Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …

how parents' actions affect their children. In recent years, the literature on parenting within economics has increasingly … of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and … developmental psychology literature, and have estimated detailed empirical models of children's accumulation of cognitive and …

students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … increase in score sends. The impact is driven almost entirely by well-resourced high schools and students. We find little … evidence that the count or composition of enrolled students changed as a result of the Scorecard information shock with the …

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …