The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…
However Wisconsin's recall election turns out on Tuesday, teachers unions already appear to be losing a larger political fight—in public…
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Mass education is vital to sustainable development, particularly in the information age. In The Education of Nations, Stephen Kosack…
Book abstract: When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…
Were cozy ties between Texas legislators and Halliburton’s corporate predecessor Brown and Root responsible for the passage of the landmark…
Though education spared Massachusetts the fate of other former industrial states, like Michigan, we have an odd way of showing that our…
John M. Quigley, who died last week, was a pioneering economist who helped change the way we think about housing. He devised statistical…
Twenty years ago this week, a jury acquitted the Los Angeles policemen who beat motorist Rodney King, and the city exploded in a six-day…