, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children … in the PWG through a shift-share design. I find that decreases in the PWG do not affect children’s socio …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

ideal for investigating this question. There, students are placed in exam schools based on a high-stakes national … large achievement gains and improved university placements for high achieving students. …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

secondary schools. Utilizing novel data on over 10,000 students, we construct comprehensive measures of social status and …. We show that while central and well-connected students are positive about their social environment, less central and … socially isolated students view it as hostile. Our results highlight the importance of improving the relational dynamics of …

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 …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases. …