Hacking Gender Stereotypes: Girls' Participation in Coding Clubs
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs?
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Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run.
When Perceptions of Public Service Harms the Public Servant: Predictors of Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Government
Public servants’ mental health can impact how, how well, and to whom services are delivered.
Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia.
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks.
Parent Engagement Interventions Are Not Costless: Opportunity Cost and Crowd Out of Parental Investment
Many educational interventions encourage parents to engage in their child's education as if parental time and attention is limitless. Sadly, though, it is not.
Education and Innovation
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.
Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is little research on how these changes affect the public's perce
COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID-1
Managing a Polarized Workforce
One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult toda
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