This chapter reviews the intellectual contributions of Lawrence F. Katz, whose work has catalysed two intellectual revolutions in economics…
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal…
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children. Researchers…
Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have…
We ask whether increased public scrutiny leads to the more effective use of predictive algorithms. We focus on the context of bail, where…
In this paper, we implement a lab-in-field experiment among around 2000 children enrolled in 14 middle schools in Italy to investigate…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome…
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in…
Affirmative action and preferential admission policies play a crucial role in fostering social mobility by bolstering the prospects of…
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less…