Primary and secondary school students spend hundreds more hours in each classroom than any observer ever will. But, until now, school…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
Did the Nobel Prize Committee choose this year’s economics laureates to influence the growing debate in Boston about how to assign students…
Most social scientists would like to think that their work helps solve important problems. For scholars of international relations, there…
Since late 2010, the world has witnessed a remarkable groundswell of political change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other…
President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for…
See RWP13-005 for an updated version of this paper: We use a Massachusetts merit aid program to provide the first clear causal evidence on…
It’s one thing to entice promising students to stay in Massachusetts by giving them free tuition at state colleges. But making sure those…
Proponents of the recent and widely adopted Common Core State Standards argue that
high quality curricular standards are critical to…
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I…