Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus on educational…
I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
The global transitional justice tool kit—involving the use of criminal prosecutions, amnesties, and other mechanisms to address past human…
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.…
Through the life stories of highly successful people, this book uncovers a common formula in the parenting that extraordinary achievers…
The Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realised. The conditions shown to result in…
Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infectious disease responsible for an estimated 12–20 million illnesses and over 150?000 deaths annually…
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue…