Book abstract: Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018…
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This paper uses a case study of the evolution of education and healthcare provision in Yantian Village, Guangdong Province to examine…
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…
Since late 2010, the world has witnessed a remarkable groundswell of political change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other…
Most social scientists would like to think that their work helps solve important problems. For scholars of international relations, there…
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…