In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized…
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of…
We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other U.S. trade partners…
Activists use populist language when proposing school reforms. Are they appealing to a public ideology as coherent as conservatism or…
Using administrative data on the universe of eighth graders, we study learning losses in Italy between 2021 and 2019 to estimate the effect…
In this playbook, we provide a framework to help college better deliver on the American Dream. We create a coherent, comprehensive taxonomy…
This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the…
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Federalism theorists debate the desirability of funding local services from local revenues or inter-governmental grants. Tiebout expects…
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…