income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …

quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …

operates through the job loss-induced reduction in household income …

displacement are an important mechanism of the effects on children, highlighting the importance of policies that provide income …We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … approach studying impacts on education as well as other key dimensions of children's lives. First, leveraging mass layoffs for …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … persistent positive income shock, and substitution away from informal care to maternal time …

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 … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …