-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants whose parents arrived shortly before birth. For most outcomes considered, I find that … distinct as often thought. I also use the measure assess whether parents' host country experience before a child's birth … performance of late-arriving first-generation children. …

children's performance only through parents. We find that one additional score point in the origin country performance in math …In this study, we provide evidence that parents' beliefs about the value of math, in terms of successful employment …, have a positive impact on children's math scores. This result is robust to the reverse causality issue that characterizes …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting … parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in mathematics (a male-stereotyped subject), whereas there are no gender … parents who are interviewed after receiving information on their child's test scores. We further show that the parental gender …

ideal. This circumstance may cause negative attitudes towards single parents, who are also among the most vulnerable groups … of society. Motivated by these findings, we study whether schools are more reluctant to interact with single parents than … with heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment with schools during the children's pre-registration period. We …

What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an … imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change …: schools allow children from different socio-economic backgrounds to mix together, and this effect is lost when schools are …