consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that …

school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … at age 5 persist into the early school years across all four countries, and the conditional analysis shows that SES …

-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on … 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 …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that … to a 1.4 percentage point increase in the likelihood of completing primary school, and a 0.5 percentage point decrease in …

Do parents alter their investment in their child's human capital in response to changes in school inputs? If they do … children's education. The use of out-of-school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen … by the teacher or the principal of the school and not by parents, but they are a consequence of student misbehavior. To …