Family (and School) Matters: The effect of schools and family on the political socialization of Latinos. Growing … the effect of family and schools on the political socialization of Latinos, both foreign and native born. I ask … specifically what role family plays in exposing immigrants to socialization practices via exposure to shared experiences, as well …

We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are … assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly … guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last condition disqualifies the standard approach of considering …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …

family size on school enrollment of the first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child … plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home …, little is known regarding the extent to which these problems spill over to children outside the family. The widespread … perception among parents and school officials is that these externalities are significant, though measuring them is difficult due …

discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover …