. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … 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 …

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 … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials affect … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …

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 … attendance, and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these schools generate larger …

leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …

disadvantaged students when parents have easy access to test score information and have good options to choose from …We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher …