We exploit a policy designed to randomly allocate roommates in a large South African university to investigate whether interracial…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
Although the South Korean economy fared relatively well on the whole during the pandemic, the labor market consequences were uneven, with…
Sarah Glavery and her coauthors draw a distinction between explicit knowledge, which is easily identified and shared through databases and…
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs? In this…
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or…
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We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The…
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.…