We analyze the distinct adjustment paths of U.S. labor markets (places) and U.S. workers (people) to increased Chinese import competition…
K–12 education and preschool policies and practices—the technology of human capital formation—have not escaped the ideological divide in…
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and…
This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely…
The success of choice programs depends more on control of statehouses
This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher-order capacities like social…
We evaluate an intervention designed to increase teachers’ awareness of social isolation by providing them with their own students’ social…
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages…
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Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages…
Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of…