attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we … sample reveal that children from larger families are less likely to attend private school and are more likely to be held back …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children’s overall learning … 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 …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … childhood and schooling interventions that does not rely on arbitrarily scaled test scores as outputs and recognizes the …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

In this paper we study the process of children's skill formation. The identification of this process is challenging … because children's skills are observed only through arbitrarily scaled and imperfect measures. Using a dynamic la- tent factor …. Moreover, we find that the marginal productivity of early investments is substantially higher for children with lower existing …

). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have … acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to non-cognitive skills early … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …