of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii …) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample of 2,119 parents in the United States, I show that parents perceive large … leveraging beliefs measured in two different domains, and show that parents' perceived returns relate to their actual parenting …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …

therefore reduce the current tensions between having children and full time labour market participation of younger women. This …

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

information on their children's school performance, for a sample of over 300 students. Using individual fixed effects, the …

Information about children’s school performance appears to be readily available. Do frictions prevent parents … test this. I find that parents’ baseline beliefs about their children’s academic performance are inaccurate. Providing …, particularly low-income parents, from acting on this information when making decisions? I conduct a field experiment in Malawi to …

health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … therapy and take anti-depressant medication following the shock. These children have lower test scores and school enrollment … on test scores is no different for children in high- and low-income families, but the families react differently to the …