In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the…
Congress appears to have temporarily fixed the problem by allowing the Federal Aviation Administration to respond to sequestration more…
Success or failure in freshman math has long been thought to have a strong impact on
subsequent high school outcomes. We study an intensive…
This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government
welfare programs in Indonesia, using both a…
Why are public-sector workers so heavily compensated with pensions and other non-pecuniary benefits? In this paper, we present a political…
Many studies find that presentation of balanced information, offering competing positions, can promote polarization and thus increase…
The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving students in the U.S. do not even apply to any selective colleges, in spite of the fact that…
We analyze a Massachusetts merit aid program in which high-scoring students received
tuition waivers at in-state public colleges with lower…
The Full Birth History has become the dominant source of estimates of fertility levels and trends for countries lacking complete birth…