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),…
Data on millions of SAT-takers show only half retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority…
Understanding the differences between rich and poor places is complicated by the fact that places differ from each other in numerous ways.…
Improving the performance of the healthcare sector requires an understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivered by…
We develop an 18-item self-report measure of receptiveness to opposing views. Studies 1a and 1b present the scale and report measures of…