essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …

of time-varying family factors for child achievement and time use. Specifically, I take a model of academic achievement … commonly used in the test score literature, and I augment it to include a family-year effect. Identification comes from the … effects reveal that annual family innovations, relative to what was expected based on the previous year, are more important …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children …

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina, there has been a significant increase in immigrants …