We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

We examine the effect of a gifted and talented program in academic secondary education. Students are assigned based on … program effects. We find that assigned students obtain higher grades, follow a more science intensive curriculum (most notably … in university, where students choose more challenging fields of study with, on average, higher returns. Together, these …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … implies that high-ability children in low-income families face binding credit constraints that society may wish to relieve. … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … increased time investments in students' skill development. Overall, my results suggest that selective admission policies can … lead to permanent improvements in students' educational performances. …