Book abstract: Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for…
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I…
The increase in the college premium—the differential in what is earned by college graduates compared with what is earned by those with…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…
I first discuss the Obama administration’s efforts to promote racial diversity on college
campuses in the face of recent court challenges…
Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the…