Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals …

-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 …

Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … students who score below a proficiency cutoff into remedial classes. Students scoring below the cutoff receive more educational … significantly larger and more likely to persist beyond the year of remediation for Black students …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …