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 …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … estimate the return to various measures of college selectivity for a more recent cohort of students: those who entered college … in 1989. We also estimate the return to college selectivity for the 1976 cohort of students, but over a longer time …

the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …