Demystifying college costs: how nudges can and can't help
As US college costs continue to rise, governments and institutions have quadrupled financial aid.
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What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?
This report aims to answer the critical but difficult question: "What will it take for Jordan to grow?" Though Jordan has numerous active growth and reform strategies in place, they do not clearly ans
Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women Essays
The pantheon of autocratic leaders includes a great many sexists, from Napoleon Bonaparte, who decriminalized the murder of unfaithful wives, to Benito Mussolini, who claimed that women "never created
Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why?
Parent Engagement Interventions Are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd Out of Parental Investment
Many educational interventions encourage parents to engage in their child's education as if parental time and attention is limitless. Sadly, though, it is not.
Education and Innovation
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.
From Health Crisis to Financial Distress
I discuss the multifaceted economic and financial vulnerabilities that have been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic on a foundation of already weak economic fundamentals in many countries
Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality
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
Protests Under Trump, 2017-2021
The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. We describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations.
COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID-1
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