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A Blue State Bailout In Disguise

Last Thursday, the president urged Congress to pony up roughly $200 billion in taxpayer money to "provide more jobs for teachers [and] more jobs for construction workers" and more money to carry out o

Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and

Sciences Still Young

Social Scientists seeking an ancient intellectual lineage can find antecedents for economics, sociology, and political science in the work of Plato and Aristotle, but truthfully, the social sciences a

Unleash the Entrepreneurs

Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America employed 6.6 million fewer workers than it did four years earlier.

Impact Evaluation of Niger’s IMAGINE Program

Why Can't American Students Compete?

“We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address this year.

International Affairs and the Public Sphere

Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems.

Do We Really Need to Spend More on Schools?

Even as the president was signing the debt-limit bill designed to cut spending this week, he insisted on continuing "to keep making key investments in things like education." Don't be surprised if the

Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools.

It’s Easier to Pick a Good Teacher than to Train One: Familiar and New Results on the Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness

Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree wa