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 present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …

workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …