Luck, Chance, and Taxes
Robert Frank’s recent book, Success and Luck, is an engaging, partly autobiographical account of why and how most Americans underestimate the role of luck in economic success.
Research
Objective Course Placement and College Readiness: Evidence from Targeted Middle School Math Acceleration
Advanced math coursework can affect college and labor market outcomes, yet discretionary placement policies can lead to differential access at key points in the college preparatory pipeline.
Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity through Existing Civil Rights Laws
More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, health care for racial and ethnic minorities remains in many ways separate and unequal in the United States.
Realizing Roma Rights
Realizing Roma Rights investigates anti-Roma racism and documents a growing Roma-led political movement engaged in building a more inclusive and just Europe.
More School or More Learning? Evidence from Learning Profiles from the Financial Inclusion Insights Data
We use a unique set of nationally representative data of adults from ten developing countries and a unique measure of literacy - a direct assessment of reading - to examine the link between targets fo
Welcome Home in a Crisis: Effects of Return Migration on the Non-Migrants’ Wages and Employment
Albanian migrants in Greece were particularly affected by the Greek crisis, which spurred a wave of return migration that increased Albania’s labor force by 5% between 2011 and 2014 alone.
The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants
Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population.
Contextual Explanations for Numeracy and Literacy Skill Disparities Between Native and Foreign-Born Adults in Western Countries
Using new direct measures of numeracy and literacy skills among 85,875 adults in 17 Western countries, we find that foreign-born adults have lower mean skills than native-born adults of the same age (
Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals
Using the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data on the ability of women at various levels of schooling attainment on the ability of women at various levels of schooling attainment to read a simple
Can States Take Over and Turn Around School Districts? Evidence from Lawrence, Massachusetts
The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to support turnarounds of low-achieving schools, yet most evidence on the impact of such turnarounds comes from high-profile, exceptional settings
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