This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … improved the students' mathematical and ethnomathematical skills. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics, of 0 ….12-0.18 standard deviations (s.d.), is comparable to preschool programs that teach intercultural bilingual classes in low- and middle-income …

where we can follow children over time, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter school. Our results …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …

attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in … schools. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm that created exogenous …

ability in a large sample of students transitioning from middle to high school in Mexico City. The paper takes advantage of … probability mass toward the signal. Further evidence reveals that males and high-socioeconomic status students, especially those …