Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets. Does this distort…
If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers’ bias in…
The U.S. Clean Air Act, passed in 1970 with strong bipartisan support, was the first environmental law to give the Federal government a…
Like many other states, Oregon has begun to pursue climate policies to attempt to fill the gap created by the lack of effective climate…
Donald Trump’s election and his nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and…
I study whether exposure to teachers’ stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1),…