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 …

family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home …, little is known regarding the extent to which these problems spill over to children outside the family. The widespread … perception among parents and school officials is that these externalities are significant, though measuring them is difficult due …

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 …

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on non-cognitive gaps …

school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …

This paper contributes to what is known about the impact of school quality, by documenting its effect on the incomes of … Black South Africans, using data from the 1996 South African census and two national surveys of school quality. South Africa … provides an interesting laboratory for studying the impact of school quality on labor market outcomes. Under the Apartheid …

by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested … successes, public school incentives differ from those of private schools …

racial composition and enrollment in all schools and school districts in 238 metropolitan areas. The study finds that white … losses appear to be spurred both by interracial contact in districts where their children attend school and by the …

In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise …, including via the manipulation of attendance zones, rather than improvements in school quality (as measured by test score value … Democratic school board candidates. These results suggest that partisan affiliation is correlated with private motivations for …