scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter’s future marriage offers. Parents’ choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the … impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

the production function, they invest more in higher-achieving children. Resources are important, as constrained parents … developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in …