This paper uses a case study of the evolution of education and healthcare provision in Yantian Village, Guangdong Province to examine broader trends in China’s evolving social policies.
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade exams.
Primary and secondary school students spend hundreds more hours in each classroom than any observer ever will.
Did the Nobel Prize Committee choose this year’s economics laureates to influence the growing debate in Boston about how to assign students to public schools?
Most social scientists would like to think that their work helps solve important problems.
Since late 2010, the world has witnessed a remarkable groundswell of political change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other Arab countries.
President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for African Americans." The order instructs federal agencies to "promot
It’s one thing to entice promising students to stay in Massachusetts by giving them free tuition at state colleges. But making sure those colleges serve them well is a much harder problem.
See RWP13-005 for an updated version of this paper: We use a Massachusetts merit aid program to provide the first clear causal evidence on the impact of college quality on students’ post-secondary en
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed.
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