Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children’s schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with …

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of … schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …

impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced school satisfaction. The use of private tutoring is increased, while … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of …

children’s and parents’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the consumption and disposal of plastics. We do this using … positive impact on children’ knowledge, attitudes and practices, but no effect on parents’ behavior. Heterogeneous effects … parents. Finally, because parents may ultimately determine what constitutes acceptable behavior for children, promoting …

capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human …

capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human …

exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … schools allocate weaker students to smaller classes and offer more remedial tutoring. Notably, parents provide more support to …We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis …

This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using …) and Compulsory Schooling Laws (CSL). While CSL have been widely used in applied work, our contribution is to introduce …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …