connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates …, earnings, and college attendance vary substantially across the parental income distribution. Notably, the traditional gender … gap in employment rates is reversed for children growing up in poor families: boys in families in the bottom quintile of …

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

ages. We study effects of a text-based program for parents of kindergarten children, distinguishing a general program from …; and their parents reported engaging more in literacy activities. Effects were driven by children further from average …Recent studies show that texting-based interventions can produce educational benefits in children across a range of …

little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

Students from 4-year colleges often arrive having already done very well in high school, but by the end of first term …, a wide dispersion of performance emerges, with an especially large lower tail. Students that do well in first year (we … call the top 10 percent Thrivers) tend to continue to do well throughout the rest of their time in university. Students …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …