undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

-cognitive skills. We examine the impact of a long-term programme designed to raise non-cognitive skills of children and adolescents in …

longitudinal data from children growing up in developing countries to study the role of early nutritional history in shaping this …

-curricular activities, on children’s skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: school performance improves by 0.20 standard … as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …

We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch … children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects … no evidence of negative spillover effects of the classroom presence of immigrant children at the median of the test score …