Recent proposals to address housing market troubles through principal modification raise
the possibility that such policies could increase…
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,…
The Affordable Care Act phases out the Medicare Part D coverage gap over the next decade; however, beneficiaries will continue to face…
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…