This paper investigates the causal impact of mother's schooling on various outcomes of
adolescent development by exploiting the temporal and geographical variations in the …

Purpose Challenges from the urban–rural disparity immensely burden the world's progress
fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals and the goals' central promise, particularly for …

This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle
gender inequality:(i) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all …

Using a regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school
records from an anonymous district in Florida, we identify externalities in human capital …

It is widely recognized that intergenerational transmission is one of the primary causes of
persistent social inequality. Using nationally representative data, the China Family Panel …

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions
are understudied. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade …

Using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) during the 2013–2014 academic
year, this paper examines the effects of family poverty on adolescents' cognitive and …

Introduction Understanding the relationship between parenting style and the non-cognitive
development of high school students is crucial, particularly in rural China. Non-cognitive …

Previous studies have often emphasized the gender effects of individual teachers but have
paid less attention to the gender composition of teacher teams. We examine the effects of …

Empirical evidence suggests children's socio-emotional skills—an important determinant of
school achievement—vary according to socioeconomic family background. This study …