See RWP13-005 for an updated version of this paper: We use a Massachusetts merit aid program to provide the first clear causal evidence on…
It’s one thing to entice promising students to stay in Massachusetts by giving them free tuition at state colleges. But making sure those…
Proponents of the recent and widely adopted Common Core State Standards argue that
high quality curricular standards are critical to…
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I…
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from…
The increase in the college premium—the differential in what is earned by college graduates compared with what is earned by those with…
It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international data on the publications, citations,…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…
The United States is in the throes of the most
serious recession in post-war history. Despite
improving employment numbers, the official…
There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural…