resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …

In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning …-educated parents increase their time investment and choose schools with better inputs when their children are the youngest at school … significantly worse at school than their older peers and – key to causal interpretation – that for children born in winter this …

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 …