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…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…
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…