We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (…
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
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…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-…
There is considerable variance in the productivity of teachers, yet educators have been unable to identify observable characteristics…