invest in their children’s education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some … determinants of the demand for education and then go on to consider what we know about how microcredit affects this demand. I find …

robust evaluation methodology and administrative education data covering 15 cohorts of children, we measure the impact of …

measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

styles are strongly associated with household income, education and whether a child is an only child. The results suggest … that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children … children from different socioeconomic origins. …

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 …

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 …

children in Black families did not explain such racial disparities. Conclusions: The economic gain of parental education on … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape …