attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we … sample reveal that children from larger families are less likely to attend private school and are more likely to be held back …The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process …

with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

school calendar and have implications for policies targeted toward women's and teenage children's health and well-being …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children … find that the new program's enhanced mentor-parent interactions stimulate parental engagement at the community-school level …

Research documents that parental beliefs influence early investments in children, which, in turn, determine early human … capital and, eventually, other skills children acquire in later stages of the lifecycle, such as literacy. Our paper reports … teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective …

The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior …. There is growing empirical evidence that low-income parents place lower weights on academics when choosing schools, but … there is little evidence as to why. We use a field experiment in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School district (CMS) to …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …