only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …

to take up higher education; and (iii) even when parents without an academic background support their children during … school, they are less likely to guide their children into tertiary education. …

Using a longitudinal study of 1,900 Peruvian children, I show that children who grow up in a household where mothers … with an incentivized experiment. The effect of domestic violence on risk attitudes is not mediated by cognitive development … and suggests that early negative experiences in life can directly influence the risk attitudes of children. This …