The Executive Session on Community Corrections has released a new paper entitled From Funnels to Large-Scale Irrigation: Changing the…
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…
A global priority for the behavioral sciences is to develop cost-effective, scalable interventions that could improve the academic outcomes…
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…
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition…
In this study, we examine the year-to-year teacher-level stability of the Tripod 7Cs composite, a widely used measure of student…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
Through the life stories of highly successful people, this book uncovers a common formula in the parenting that extraordinary achievers…