Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of…
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers. Frontline service sector workers,…
We experimentally test several approaches to increasing the demand for workers with a criminal record on a nationwide staffing platform by…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
Gender segregation in the field of study is still a pervasive phenomenon in many countries. In this paper, we highlight the crucial role of…
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is…
How can we improve academic achievement and college attainment for disadvantaged students? To address this question, education researchers…