Working parents must arrange some type of care for their young children when they are away at work. For parents with unstable and…
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled…
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This article estimates the association between maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules in the service sector and child…
Problem definition: Autonomous sensors connected through the internet of things (IoT) are deployed by different firms in the same…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
The 15th annual Education Next survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the…
Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…