international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …

This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling … the types of primary sampling units. Specifically, we only use non-migrant rural hukou children living in counties in the … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …