exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children …We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … low-performing children in nearly all countries studied. Compensatory investments increase over grade levels, suggesting …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

-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 …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … most-preferred school versus an institution ranked lower increases achievement by 0.10 SD beyond school value-added among …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …

-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 …

-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 …

investments, reacting to school quality later in childhood. There is also evidence of cross-productivity between reading and math …This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given …