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Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School

We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India.

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Future Prospects

Workers of the World Divide

Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the United States' total labor force was unionized.

The Self-Destruction of Arizona

With all the problems in education these days, Arizona’s state superintendent of public instruction, John Huppenthal, thinks he has the answer.

Obama’s Education Grade Left Behind By Bush’s

Just as gross domestic product (GDP) growth is said to be a good measure of a president’s economic management skills, so the nation’s official report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progr

Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring?

Comment on On Estimating Elasticities of Substitution

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production.

Comment: On Estimating Elasticities of Substitution

The literature that attempts to measure the labor market impact of immigration grew explosively in the past decade. This growth was accompanied by a noticeable methodological shift.

What You (Really) Need to Know

A paradox of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an edu