Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that they are valid and unbi
Paid sick leave helps workers recover from illness and manage care obligations and protects public health. Yet access to paid sick leave remains limited and unequal in the United States.
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure.
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socioeconomic status (SES).
Has the achievement of U.S. students improved over the past half century? Have gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups widened or narrowed?
Policymakers, conceptualized here as principals, disagree as to whether US student performance has changed over the past half century.
Demographers and other social scientists often study effect heterogeneity (defined here as differences in outcome–predictor associations across groups defined by the values of a third variable) to und
Against the backdrop of dramatic changes in work and family life, this article draws on survey data from 2,971 mothers working in the service sector to examine how unpredictable schedules are associat
For some time now, management education scholars have called for constructivist learning environments which position student experience as primary in order to help students learn how to learn from the
Although the South Korean economy fared relatively well on the whole during the pandemic, the labor market consequences were uneven, with women experiencing worse outcomes than men.
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