Jencks helped pioneer the study of inequality and developed generations of scholars.
Place-based policy in the United States comprises a wide range of government programs that are spread across federal, state, and local…
This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a particular focus on higher-order capacities like social…
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Research shows service sector workers do best when they change sectors or find themselves in tight labor markets. But also that the vast…
Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable…
Job selection by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We use a Fréchet-Roy model of…
The "Tutoring Online Program" (TOP), launched in Italy in 2020, is an online educational reinforcement tutoring program that offered…
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…