Synopsis: Recent years have seen extensive debate in popular commentary about a pervasive ‘cancel culture’ thought to be taking over college campuses.
A randomized experiment (N = 3,037) examines the impact of conditional and unconditional monetary incentives on response rates to a mail survey in a contemporary context.
White workers experience significant advantages in the labor market both in hiring and in compensation compared to their non-white peers.
Student loans help many individuals obtain higher education that they otherwise could not fund, but concerns have arisen in recent years about the large number of borrowers that appear to be strugglin
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States.
This study examines the impact of returns to work, for adult labor and child labor, on child work and schooling outcomes.
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to evaluate the effects of providing information to families on their children's reading and math achievement in a mid-size ci
Small samples negatively affect the quality of the information we use when making group-based estimates.
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to group performance.
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (i) immediate payment reductions to target short-run liquidity
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