Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system.
Research
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias
I study whether exposure to teachers’ stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement.
The Unheard Nerds: How Economists Can Talk So Policymakers Will Listen
An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example.
Determining the Differences that Matter: Development and Divergence in US States over 1850-2010
Understanding the differences between rich and poor places is complicated by the fact that places differ from each other in numerous ways.
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash grants to either one (L) or to all (H) private schools in a v
Misperceptions of Relative Affluence and Support for International Redistribution
Against a backdrop of vast income disparities across countries, this article develops a theory of how misperceptions of individuals’ relative international income shape mass support for cross-national
Alternative Paths to Public Financial Management and Public Sector Reform: Experiences from East Asia
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor countries alike.
Slower Productivity and Higher Inequality: Are They Related?
Income growth for typical American families has slowed dramatically since 1973. Slower productivity growth and an increase in income inequality have both contributed to this trend.
An Economic Platform for US Democrats
When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by “pocketbook issues” than by foreign affairs or President Donald T
Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto
This chapter describes a new type of poverty in nation's metropolises: poor, segregated neighborhoods in which a majority of adults are either unemployed or have dropped out of the labor force altoget
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