Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … children's schooling. The findings suggest that excellent academic performance of the child is associated with higher parental …

How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents … redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see early testing of children as a necessary instrument for identifying … children. In practice, there is large crosscountry variation in testing regimes. We exploit random variation in test-taking in …

county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 primary schoolchildren (8 to 10 years old … to parents produces further large mathematics benefits for young left-behind children, about 0.30 standard deviations. A … low-cost investment in better feedback thus brings significant achievement gains especially for disadvantaged children. …

in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of … immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …

gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10-12), 310 teenagers … for children, males begin to wager substantially more as they become teenagers, leading to the emergence of the gender gap …