students. We study the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by observed ability and the importance of …

AI availability raises grades, especially for lower-performing students, and compresses the grade distribution, eroding …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …

monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …

acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential …

using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting cross sectional variation in students' self …-reported grit in the last year of compulsory school, we find that an increase in students' grit is associated with a higher … cognitive skill measures and a comprehensive set of other students' background characteristics. Moreover, using novel data on …