affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

in the likelihood of financial transfers from parents to children around the time of the move and a 70% increase in the … education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …

students in Michigan for the main analyses, and complement this with analyses from a state-year panel. The study employs … that ACT science scores improved by 0.2 points (or roughly 0.04 standard deviations) as a result of the MMC. Students who … impact on high school graduation for students who entered high school with the weakest academic preparation, but other …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook … its effect, we present evidence from a novel survey we conducted among 2000 students at Peking University. The sharp …

outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs … and Hindi test scores by 0.59σ and 0.36σ respectively. We find similar absolute test score gains for all students, but the … relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control group was close …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …