If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers’ bias in…
One in seven Americans received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011, an all-time high. We analyze changes…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
I study whether exposure to teachers’ stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
This chapter describes a new type of poverty in nation's metropolises: poor, segregated neighborhoods in which a majority of adults are…
Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from…