In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and…
I study whether exposure to teachers’ stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Do signals of high aptitude shape the course of collegiate study? We apply a regression discontinuity design to understand how college…
Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1),…
Nearly a quarter of 7th-12th-graders in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) attend one of three exam schools, considered among the highest…
How much does the appearance of a house, or its neighbors, impact its price? Do events that impact the incentives facing homeowners, like…
When deciding whether to provide job-matching assistance to formerly incarcerated job seekers, which factors do individuals with job…
Data on millions of SAT-takers show only half retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority…
The first part of this paper examines the rise and current state of ESG investing. The second addresses the conceptual and statistical…