We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … school choice becomes available in a student's educational path. We find that the impacts of vouchers on PSE outcomes are …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects …Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … the extension in the school day by 3.5 hours leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows …

mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes, parents, and teachers could drive these results. Higher-achieving peers …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …

We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups. …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …