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…
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…
This paper examines whether social interactions and cultural practices affect political views
and behavior in society. We investigate the…
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from…
Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand
experiment in market-based environmental policy: the…