consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … that behavioural problems in children are associated with lower school grades independent of parenting style. These … underpin the influence of parental SES on children's school achievement. …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …

Parents often establish fruitful relationships with teachers, students and other parents at their child’s school. By …, generating trust and/or connecting the school with the wider community. PISA asked parents from the 18 countries and economies … of their parents they know. In schools where parents know their children’s friends and their families, students are more …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

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 …