individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children … for boys. For non-cognitive skills we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within province, village level variation in gender attitudes confirm the …

parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …

motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for the job market, and student math anxiety. The presence of one family …

affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children …Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …

Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries … and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find steep socioeconomic and attitude … results suggest that a sizable improvement in gender attitudes would yield important gains for females, but substantial gains …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …