States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is little research on how these changes affect the public’s perce
Employment rates fell dramatically between March and April 2020 as the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic reverberated through the U.S. labor market.
In the context of the knowledge and service-based economy, firms cannot operate without the joint investment of capital and labor, and their productivity is determined by how this cooperative investme
The papers in this volume examine a series of important questions that influence the transition from full time employment to complete retirement.
In a typical year, more than 2 million recent U.S. high-school graduates begin college in the fall.
How can we improve academic achievement and college attainment for disadvantaged students?
This introduction to the second installment of a two-part special issue focuses on actors and spaces that facilitate different forms of progress or push-back in decolonizing African Studies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare existing inequalities in workplace exposure to health risks and economic insecurity.
Despite widespread recognition of the right to a nationality, statelessness and its attendant vulnerabilities continue to characterize the lives of millions in South Asia.
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically.
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