parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

We use unique data from the Berea Panel Study to characterize how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at … expectations data, we find that roughly two-thirds of the income uncertainty present at the time of entrance remains at the end of … college. Taking advantage of a variety of additional survey questions, we provide evidence about how the resolution of income …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

outcomes, knowledge of the causal effect of the most fundamental input in the education production function - students' study …

adulthood. The program led to a gradual increase in university education of the high school treated students, reaching a gain of …

schooling in Israeli kibbutzim. This pay reform, which induced kibbutz students to improve their academic achievements during … high school, spilled over to non-kibbutz members who attended schools with these kibbutz students. In the short run, peers … of kibbutz students improved their high school outcomes and shifted to courses with higher financial returns. In the …

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their … could influence dropout. Our simulations show that students who perform poorly tend to learn that staying in school is not …

number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …