What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to…
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-…
The author reflects on the state of public schools in the
U.S. under the administration of President Barack Obama. Ratings given
by the…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…
Beginning in the early 2000s, there was an upsurge of national concern over the state of the science and engineering job market that…
Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital…
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? There is a trade-off. On the one hand, government…