The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages.
Research
Women and Pre-Tenure Scholarly Productivity in International Studies: An Investigation into the Leaky Career Pipeline
Why are women still relatively scarce in the international studies profession?
The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills.
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City
In this paper, we collect data on the inner-workings of 39 charter schools and correlate these data with school effectiveness.
The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Americans are aware of public education's many failures—the elevated high-school dropout rates, the need for remedial work among entering college students.
Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980-2003
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty
Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty
The Obama Setback for Minority Education
Should federally mandated school accountability and testing requirements be abandoned?
Crumbling American Dreams
My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered decent opportunity for the children of bankers and factory worke
What Do Parents Want? An Exploration of School Preferences Expressed by Boston Parents
This working paper seeks to determine the preferences of Boston parents for certain school attributes.
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