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Public-opinion polls in the United States indicate a close presidential election in November. While President Barack Obama outpolls…
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…
Recent proposals to address housing market troubles through principal modification raise
the possibility that such policies could increase…
Twenty years ago Russia and fourteen other newly-independent states emerged from the ruins of the Soviet empire, many as nations for the…
Expanding estimates of North America’s supply of accessible shale gas, and more recently, shale oil, have been trumpeted in many circles as…
It’s one thing to entice promising students to stay in Massachusetts by giving them free tuition at state colleges. But making sure those…
Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in
performance because they are merely isomorphic…
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…