If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers’ bias in…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
Nearly a quarter of 7th-12th-graders in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) attend one of three exam schools, considered among the highest…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement. The current study addresses the…