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 …

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 …

Front Cover -- Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of … Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Introduction: Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes … -- Reading Development -- Classroom Phonics Instruction -- Preschool Attendance -- School Poverty Level -- Child/Family …

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 …

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 …

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 …