a reward with a higher signaling value to their parents, independent of the school type. … schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the effectiveness of (i) a medal (ii) a letter of praise to the parents …

of parents and students. We find that more choices of a particular type of school do lead to an increase in parental exit … reduction in the use of voice to address institutional failures. School choice is premised on the idea that more exit options … to that type of school, but that the effect on voice is more complicated. Specifically, more exit options decreases the …

In this article the author draws attention to the importance of parents and community involvement in improving academic … learning of the pupils. Pupils' academic accomplishment is not a unilateral process: the parents and educators must actively … facilitate the education of pupils. This should function in four levels: instructions at school, instructions at home, school …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on … they grow up, and parents cannot directly prevent them from doing so. We present a model where parents may strategically … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

A key assumption of school choice and competition policies is that parents' most important priority when choosing a … drive parents' school choosing is still scarce. We use census data from a parents' survey in Chile, a country with a … national school choice and competition system, to describe the most common attributes that parents consider when choosing a …

Can inequalities in private school access be bridged through a government mandate? Enacted in 2009, India's “Right to … compare the school choices of the targeted children and their elder siblings (not eligible for the mandate) between the …

different households. Because school quality might be endogenous to parents' choices, we identify the key parameters related to …Limitations in the ability of parents to compare schools have important implications for market oriented educational … systems, which rely on parents choices to improve quality through competition. To empirically study these limitations, we …