BOOK DESCRIPTIONThis book unveils how parenting helped shape some of the most fascinating people you will ever encounter, by doing things…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
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…