This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in … children to leverage their genetic gifts to achieve high levels of educational attainments. The multigenerational information …/1919 influenza pandemic as a source of quasi-experimental variation to family environments (but not affecting children's genetic …

average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …

average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …

Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to … New York City (NYC) FITNESSGRAM initiative on over 1.6 million children in grades K-8, we find that males and females are …

first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …

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 …