with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher … an impact on the schools parents chose and if those changed choices led to academic gains. We find that 16% of parents … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a …

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 …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The …. The "punishment effect" postulates that adult children may punish parents who fail to provide spousal care by not …

discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of …We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … rates and age specific estimates of the response of transfers and wealth to permanent income to compute the expected present …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …