scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income … children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

, 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 …

estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …

attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in … schools. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm that created exogenous …

ability in a large sample of students transitioning from middle to high school in Mexico City. The paper takes advantage of … probability mass toward the signal. Further evidence reveals that males and high-socioeconomic status students, especially those …