To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the … benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that …. Students with low socio-economic status perceive pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to be lower. Beliefs explain 48% of the …

-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 …

opportunity costs for raising children. Indeed, we show that children exposed to kindergartens were less likely to work during … that exposure to kindergartens particularly helped immigrant children from non-English-speaking countries to gain English …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …