effective at raising non-cognitive skills. Head Start is also more effective for children with less-educated mothers. Centers … that draw more children from center-based preschool have smaller effects, suggesting that cross-center differences in …/Scope curriculum, teacher education, and class size, are not associated with increased effectiveness in Head Start. Together, observed …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

This paper investigates whether education weakens the relationship between early-life disadvantages and later-life SES … did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …

administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates … gap in employment rates is reversed for children growing up in poor families: boys in families in the bottom quintile of … and commuting zones in which children grow up. The degree of variation in outcomes across places is largest for boys …

This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We …, suggesting that DACA raised aspirations for education above and beyond qualifying for legal status. We find that the same …

children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …We exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on educational outcomes of their …

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … general equilibrium overlapping generations model with intergenerational linkages, a higher education choice as well as a … disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …