may attend less school. Exploiting early life rainfall shocks in India as a source of exogenous variation in early life …

school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those (young) adults who …

education and child labor legislation became more stringent and potentially constrained secondary-school aged youths. It might … of the increase in high school enrollments and can account for about the same portion of the increase in the eventual …

for applicants favored by affirmative action indeed show no gains in reading and negative effects of exam school … benefit from affirmative-action, a pattern inconsistent with mismatch. We show that Chicago exam school effects are explained … by the schools attended by applicants who are not offered an exam school seat. Specifically, mismatch arises because exam …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …

We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school … graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …