exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children …We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … low-performing children in nearly all countries studied. Compensatory investments increase over grade levels, suggesting …

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a …

worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school … effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random …

understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …

, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share … of girls at school have poorer employment prospects. The opposite is true for girls who have sisters. Overall, the size …