Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children's schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children’s schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact … matching to control for potential endogeneity between parental health and children's school outcomes and employ cancer specific … have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health …

a reward with a higher signaling value to their parents, independent of the school type. … schools in Germany. Based on a pre-study, we compare the effectiveness of (i) a medal (ii) a letter of praise to the parents …

impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced school satisfaction. The use of private tutoring is increased, while …

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 … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This …

an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This …

an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This …