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. …

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 …

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to … implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …