benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

tutoring. Minority and low-income parents increase engagement and increase both tutoring and in-home homework help. Results … higher quality education. However, there are heterogeneous effects. Non-minority parents decrease engagement, but increase …

characteristics of children as well as parents. To estimate causal treatment effects, I use a simple logistic regression along with a …With the goal to shed more light on the effectiveness of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal … relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … unter 5 Jahren in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen wahrscheinlich nicht ihr volles Entwicklungspotenzial … Determinanten kindlicher Entwicklung auf der Ebene des Kindes, der Eltern, der Schule oder des Landes. Der erste Aufsatz stellt die …

null results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment effects on primary school children's cognitive, behavioral, and …

of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii …) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting …