middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

We study the effect of the world’s largest school feeding program on children’s learning outcomes. Staggered … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in … this to estimate the effect of program exposure on math and reading test scores of primary school-aged children. We find …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

the crisis is negatively associated with a student’s propensity to study during school closure, participation and … for grade 9 students. These students were particularly vulnerable to dropping out of school prematurely due to the crisis …. We find that most students kept studying during the crisis, returned to school to participate in the lower …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their …

tutoring relates to the transition probability to an academically demanding post compulsory school and the probability to … successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … more likely to fail in the selective school than students who had the same level of competencies without tutoring …

We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta …

’ to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the …We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced ‘maturity testing … normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after the establishment were more likely to finish compulsory schooling …