with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher … an impact on the schools parents chose and if those changed choices led to academic gains. We find that 16% of parents … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

new groups of students arriving on campus encountered a social system centered on exclusive old boys' clubs. We combine … archival and Census records of students' college lives and long-run careers with a room-randomization design based on a scaled … residential integration policy. We first show that high-status students from prestigious private high schools perform worse …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation … parents, 31% for the 2013 cohort chose this option. Our hypothesis is that the declining availability of 'matched jobs' that … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …

Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human … capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports … teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective …

-factor model is estimated using panel data, and the results indicate that when such factors are taken account of, family income is … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …

-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …