US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth.
Research
Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that they are valid and unbi
Mandates Narrow Gender Gaps In Paid Sick Leave Coverage For Low-Wage Workers In The US
Paid sick leave helps workers recover from illness and manage care obligations and protects public health. Yet access to paid sick leave remains limited and unequal in the United States.
Implied comparative advantage
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure.
Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES—Achievement Gap
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socioeconomic status (SES).
A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences
Policymakers, conceptualized here as principals, disagree as to whether US student performance has changed over the past half century.
A Half Century of Student Progress Nationwide: First Comprehensive Analysis Finds Broad Gains in Test Scores, with Larger Gains for Students of Color than White Students
Has the achievement of U.S. students improved over the past half century? Have gaps between racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups widened or narrowed?
Is the Effect Larger in Group A or B? It Depends: Understanding Results From Nonlinear Probability Models
Demographers and other social scientists often study effect heterogeneity (defined here as differences in outcome–predictor associations across groups defined by the values of a third variable) to und
Parenting Without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict
Against the backdrop of dramatic changes in work and family life, this article draws on survey data from 2,971 mothers working in the service sector to examine how unpredictable schedules are associat
Why Management Schools May Never Change: Insights from the Early Years at Yale School of Management
For some time now, management education scholars have called for constructivist learning environments which position student experience as primary in order to help students learn how to learn from the
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