. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … the NLSY-C declines with birth order as does the stringency of their parents' disciplinary restrictions. And, when asked … how they will respond if a child brought home bad grades, parents state that they would be less likely to punish their …

determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on … they grow up, and parents cannot directly prevent them from doing so. We present a model where parents may strategically … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children--such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … attendance, and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these schools generate larger …

including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents …

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children’s learning. Overall, the interventions induced … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded – and improved student … intervention on educational achievement. To understand these null effects, we explore how social ties between parents and teachers …

, particularly among girls and pupils of low socioeconomic background. Second, the use of classroom techniques that endow pupils with …