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2021
w28865 Chong-En Bai
Ruixue Jia
Hongbin Li
Xin Wang

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
w28845 Laura Chioda
David Contreras-Loya
Paul Gertler
Dana Carney

Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
w28820 Patricia Cortés
Jessica Pan
Laura Pilossoph
Basit Zafar

Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
w28819 Jan Marcus
Thomas Siedler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth

The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
w28816 Hugh Macartney
Robert McMillan
Uros Petronijevic

A Quantitative Framework for Analyzing the Distributional Effects of Incentive Schemes
w28803 Christine Logel
Philip Oreopoulos
Uros Petronijevic

Experiences and Coping Strategies of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28790 Eric Brunner
Shaun Dougherty
Stephen L. Ross

The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System
w28782 Ludovica Gazze
Claudia Persico
Sandra Spirovska

The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
w28780 Alejandro J. Ganimian
Karthik Muralidharan
Christopher R. Walters

Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India
w28756 Guthrie Gray-Lobe
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston
w28753 Charles J. Courtemanche
Anh H. Le
Aaron Yelowitz
Ron Zimmer

School Reopenings, Mobility, and COVID-19 Spread: Evidence from Texas
w28750 Silvia H. Barcellos
Leandro Carvalho
Patrick Turley

The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES
w28733 David J. Deming
The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
w28724 Paul Gertler
Brett Green
Catherine Wolfram

Digital Collateral
w28722 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Early Childhood Education in the United States: What, When, Where, Who, How, and Why
w28719 Daniel Oliver
Robert W. Fairlie
Glenn Millhauser
Randa Roland

Minority Student and Teaching Assistant Interactions in STEM
w28715 George Bulman
Robert W. Fairlie

The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data
w28710 Jeffrey T. Denning
Eric R. Eide
Kevin Mumford
Richard W. Patterson
Merrill Warnick

Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
w28703 Dennis A. Kramer II
Christina J. Lamb
Lindsay C. Page

The Effects of Default Choice on Student Loan Borrowing: Experimental Evidence from a Public Research University
w28688 Lars Kirkebøen
Edwin Leuven
Magne Mogstad

College as a Marriage Market
w28669 Kristy Fan
Tyler J. Fisher
Andrew A. Samwick

The Insurance Value of Financial Aid
w28652 N. Meltem Daysal
Todd E. Elder
Judith K. Hellerstein
Scott A. Imberman
Chiara Orsini

Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
w28619 Casey B. Mulligan
The Incidence and Magnitude of the Health Costs of In-person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28586 Owen Thompson
Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966-2017
w28583 Valerie Michelman
Joseph Price
Seth D. Zimmerman

Old Boys' Clubs and Upward Mobility Among the Educational Elite
w28581 Samuel Berlinski
Matias Busso
Taryn Dinkelman
Claudia Martínez A.

Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages
w28552 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Hernando Grueso

Student Learning in Online College Programs
w28544 Barbara Biasi
David J. Deming
Petra Moser

Education and Innovation
w28543 James J. Heckman
Rasmus Landersø

Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
w28531 Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Monica P. Bhatt
Philip J. Cook
Jonathan M.V. Davis
Kenneth Dodge
George Farkas
Roland G. Fryer Jr
Susan Mayer
Harold Pollack
Laurence Steinberg

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
w28530 Barbara Biasi
Chao Fu
John Stromme

Equilibrium in the Market for Public School Teachers: District Wage Strategies and Teacher Comparative Advantage
w28517 C. Kirabo Jackson
Claire Mackevicius

The Distribution of School Spending Impacts
w28512 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Umut M. Dur
Aram Grigoryan

School Assignment by Match Quality
w28511 Esteban M. Aucejo
Jacob F. French
Basit Zafar

Estimating Students' Valuation for College Experiences
w28498 Martin A. Isungset
Dalton Conley
Henrik D. Zachrisson
Eivind Ystrøm
Alexandra Havdahl
Pål R. Njølstad
Torkild H. Lyngstad

Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Performance in Early Adolescence
w28477 Sarah R. Cohodes
Katharine S. Parham

Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence
w28455 Dan Goldhaber
Scott A. Imberman
Katharine O. Strunk
Bryant Hopkins
Nate Brown
Erica Harbatkin
Tara Kilbride

To What Extent Does In-Person Schooling Contribute to the Spread of COVID-19? Evidence from Michigan and Washington
w28450 Ruixue Jia
Hongbin Li

Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score: Elite College Admission and Wages in China
w28428 Vicki Been
Ingrid Ellen
David N. Figlio
Ashlyn Nelson
Stephen Ross
Amy Ellen Schwartz
Leanna Stiefel

The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes
w28419 Adam A. Leive
Christopher J. Ruhm

Education Gradients in Mortality Trends by Gender and Race
w28406 Monica P. Bhatt
Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Anuj K. Shah

Scope Challenges to Social Impact
w28393 Edward Asiedu
Dean Karlan
Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
Christopher R. Udry

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
w28353 Thomas Crossley
Yifan Gong
Todd R. Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-college Periods: New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations.
w28343 Chao Fu
Junjie Guo
Adam J. Smith
Alan T. Sorensen

Students' Heterogeneous Preferences and the Uneven Spatial Distribution of Colleges
w28342 John Bound
Breno Braga
Gaurav Khanna
Sarah Turner

The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
w28336 Renata Lemos
Karthik Muralidharan
Daniela Scur

Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India
w28326 Gaia Dossi
David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
2020
w28311 Marika Cabral
Bokyung Kim
Maya Rossin-Slater
Molly Schnell
Hannes Schwandt

Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
w28308 Marciano Siniscalchi
Pietro Veronesi

Self-image Bias and Lost Talent
w28307 Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight

Exposure to a School Shooting and Subsequent Well-Being
w28288 Marco Castillo
John A. List
Ragan Petrie
Anya Samek

Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment
w28283 John A. List
Fatemeh Momeni
Yves Zenou

The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
w28280 Kalena Cortes
Daniel Klasik

Uniform Admissions, Unequal Access: Did the Top 10% Plan Increase Access to Selective Flagship Institutions?
w28279 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w28268 Martha J. Bailey
Brenden D. Timpe
Shuqiao Sun

Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency
w28267 Robert Ainsworth
Rajeev Dehejia
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Miguel Urquiola

Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added
w28264 Francesco Agostinelli
Matthias Doepke
Giuseppe Sorrenti
Fabrizio Zilibotti

When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
w28255 Patrick Bayer
Peter Q. Blair
Kenneth Whaley

A National Study of School Spending and House Prices
w28241 Joshua Angrist
Peter Hull
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment
w28250 Alex Hollingsworth
Mike Huang
Ivan J. Rudik
Nicholas J. Sanders

Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Performance: Intensity, Duration, and Nutrition Matter
w28246 Philipp Ager
Katherine Eriksson
Ezra Karger
Peter Nencka
Melissa A. Thomasson

School Closures During the 1918 Flu Pandemic
w28227 Peter Q. Blair
Bobby W. Chung

A Model of Occupational Licensing and Statistical Discrimination
w28217 Asta Breinholt
Dalton Conley

Child-Driven Parenting: Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype
w28212 Ş. Pelin Akyol
Naci H. Mocan

Education and Consanguineous Marriage
w28205 Noam Angrist
Peter Bergman
Moitshepi Matsheng

School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using "Low-Tech" in a Pandemic
w28200 David A. Green
Ali Karimirad
Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
Henry E. Siu

COVID and the Economic Importance of In-Person K-12 Schooling
w28194 C. Kirabo Jackson
Shanette C. Porter
John Q. Easton
Sebastián Kiguel

Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools? Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts
w28188 Julian Betts
Laura Hill
Karen Bachofer
Joseph Hayes
Andrew Lee
Andrew Zau

Effects of English Learner Reclassification Policies on Academic Trajectories
w28180 Nicola Bianchi
Yi Lu
Hong Song

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students' Long-Term Development
w28175 Sylvain Catherine
Constantine Yannelis

The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness
w28169 Carla Varona Cervantes
Russell Cooper

Labor Market Implications of Education MisMatch
w28160 Tania Babina
Alex Xi He
Sabrina T. Howell
Elisabeth Ruth Perlman
Joseph Staudt

The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research
w28158 Bradley Larsen
Ziao Ju
Adam Kapor
Chuan Yu

The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
w28141 Lance Lochner
Youngmin Park

Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
w28129 Karthik Muralidharan
Abhijeet Singh

Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
w28046 Rachel Fulcher Dawson
Melissa S. Kearney
James X. Sullivan

Comprehensive Approaches to Increasing Student Completion in Higher Education: A Survey of the Landscape
w28040 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Paul Gertler
Nozomi Nakajima
Harry Patrinos

Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments
w28022 George Orlov
Douglas McKee
James Berry
Austin Boyle
Thomas DiCiccio
Tyler Ransom
Alex Rees-Jones
Jörg Stoye

Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach
w27995 Christopher Cotton
Brent R. Hickman
John A. List
Joseph Price
Sutanuka Roy

Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment
w27925 Michael Dinerstein
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Constantine Yannelis

Human Capital Depreciation
w27913 Roland G. Fryer Jr
Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Anya Samek

Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions
w27897 Christopher Avery
Benjamin L. Castleman
Michael Hurwitz
Bridget T. Long
Lindsay C. Page

Digital Messaging to Improve College Enrollment and Success
w27894 Barbara Biasi
Heather Sarsons

Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
w27887 Kehinde F. Ajayi
Willa H. Friedman
Adrienne M. Lucas

When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
w27885 Rajashri Chakrabarti
Nicole Gorton
Michael F. Lovenheim

State Investment in Higher Education: Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-term Financial Outcomes of Students
w27834 Joshua Angrist
David Autor
Amanda Pallais

Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students
w27825 Kevin M. Kniffin
Andrew S. Hanks
Xuechao Qian
Bo Wang
Bruce A. Weinberg

Dissertators with Distantly Related Foci Face Divergent Near-Term Outcomes
w27823 Orazio Attanasio
Áureo de Paula
Alessandro Toppeta

The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills: Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence
w27818 Eliana Avitzour
Adi Choen
Daphna Joel
Victor Lavy

On the Origins of Gender-Biased Behavior: The Role of Explicit and Implicit Stereotypes
w27812 Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Michele Giannola
Milagros Nores

Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions
w27799 Ila Fazzio
Alex Eble
Robin L. Lumsdaine
Peter Boone
Baboucarr Bouy
Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh
Chitra Jayanty
Simon Johnson
Ana Filipa Silva

Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau
w27779 Mitra Akhtari
Natalie Bau
Jean-William P. Laliberté

Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital
w27773 Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Dirk Krueger
Alexander Ludwig
Irina Popova

The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures
w27764 Holger Sieg
Chamna Yoon
Jipeng Zhang

The Impact of Migration Controls on Urban Fiscal Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in China
w27736 Danielle Li
Lindsey R. Raymond
Peter Bergman

Hiring as Exploration
w27714 Shirin A. Hashim
Thomas J. Kane
Thomas Kelley-Kemple
Mary E. Laski
Douglas O. Staiger

Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed?
w27694 Veronica Minaya
Brendan Moore
Judith Scott-Clayton

The Effect of Job Displacement on College Enrollment: Evidence from Ohio
w27688 Gregorio S. Caetano
Hugh Macartney

What Determines School Segregation? The Crucial Role of Neighborhood Factors
w27661 Jonathan Guryan
Sandra Christenson
Ashley Cureton
Ijun Lai
Jens Ludwig
Catherine Schwarz
Emma Shirey
Mary Clair Turner

The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program
w27658 Sandra E. Black
Jeffrey T. Denning
Lisa J. Dettling
Sarena Goodman
Lesley J. Turner

Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being
w27645 Arpita Patnaik
Matthew J. Wiswall
Basit Zafar

College Majors
w27618 Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
Anders Stenberg

Family Spillovers in Field of Study
w27609 Clément de Chaisemartin
Jaime Ramirez-Cuellar

At What Level Should One Cluster Standard Errors in Paired Experiments, and in Stratified Experiments with Small Strata?
w27607 Jesse M. Bruhn
Scott A. Imberman
Marcus A. Winters

Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27555 Andrew Bacher-Hicks
Joshua Goodman
Christine Mulhern

Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time
w27550 Nora E. Gordon
Sarah J. Reber

Federal Aid to School Districts During the COVID-19 Recession
w27548 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Adriana D. Kugler
Mikko I. Silliman

Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
w27543 Bryan S. Graham
Geert Ridder
Petra M. Thiemann
Gema Zamarro

Teacher-to-Classroom Assignment and Student Achievement
w27524 Gordon Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
Anders Stenberg

High School Majors, Comparative (Dis)Advantage, and Future Earnings
w27514 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Joseph Price
Dahai Yue

The Association Between Educational Attainment and Longevity using Individual Level Data from the 1940 Census
w27513 Eric V. Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight

Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls
w27512 Adam Leive
Christopher J. Ruhm

Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated?
w27484 Eric A. Hanushek
Lavinia Kinne
Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann

Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
w27476 Andre Nickow
Philip Oreopoulos
Vincent Quan

The Impressive Effects of Tutoring on PreK-12 Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence
w27468 Jeffrey T. Denning
Richard Murphy
Felix Weinhardt

Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
w27424 Zhuan Pei
David S. Lee
David Card
Andrea Weber

Local Polynomial Order in Regression Discontinuity Designs
w27392 Esteban M. Aucejo
Jacob F. French
Maria Paola Ugalde Araya
Basit Zafar

The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey
w27377 Chirantan Chatterjee
Eric A. Hanushek
Shreekanth Mahendiran

Can Greater Access to Education Be Inequitable? New Evidence from India's Right to Education Act
w27356 James J. Heckman
Bei Liu
Mai Lu
Jin Zhou

Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
w27351 Diego Daruich
Raquel Fernández

Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment
w27337 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Matthew Miller
Shuyang Sheng
Veronica T. Sovero

Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks and Socializing
w27336 John Cawley
Euna Han
Jiyoon Kim
Edward C. Norton

Sibling Correlation in Educational Attainment: A Test of Genetic Nurture
w27312 Scott E. Carrell
Michal Kurlaender

My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement
w27298 Annie Duflo
Jessica Kiessel
Adrienne Lucas

Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies to Increase Learning at Scale
w27294 Emily E. Wiemers
Scott Abrahams
Marwa AlFakhri
V. Joseph Hotz
Robert F. Schoeni
Judith A. Seltzer

Disparities in Vulnerability to Severe Complications from COVID-19 in the United States
w27269 David Card
Alex Solis

Measuring the Effect of Student Loans on College Persistence
w27250 Eliot Abrams
Jonathan Libgober
John A. List

Research Registries: Facts, Myths, and Possible Improvements
w27241 Natalie Bau
Martin Rotemberg
Manisha Shah
Bryce Steinberg

Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
w27217 Hamid R. Oskorouchi
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
David E. Bloom

The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
w27209 Peter Bergman
Eric W. Chan
Adam Kapor

Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment
w27196 David Autor
David N. Figlio
Krzysztof Karbownik
Jeffrey Roth
Melanie Wasserman

Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
w27177 Jonathan Smith
Joshua Goodman
Michael Hurwitz

The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges
w27169 Qingnan Xie
Richard B. Freeman

The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China's Catching Up in Scientific Research
w27162 Dario Cestau
Dennis Epple
Richard Romano
Holger Sieg
Carl Wojtaszek

College Achievement and Attainment Gaps: Evidence from West Point Cadets
w27126 John Cawley
Alex M. Susskind
Barton Willage

Does Information Disclosure Improve Consumer Knowledge? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Restaurant Menu Calorie Labels
w27125 Deven E. Carlson
Alex Schmidt
Sarah Souders
Barbara L. Wolfe

The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings: Experimental Evidence from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars
w27094 Michael Gilraine
Jiaying Gu
Robert McMillan

A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added
w27073 Samuel Bazzi
Masyhur Hilmy
Benjamin Marx

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
w27071 Ben Weidmann
David J. Deming

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
w27068 Peter Arcidiacono
Josh Kinsler
Tyler Ransom

Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
w27050 Francesco Agostinelli
Matthias Doepke
Giuseppe Sorrenti
Fabrizio Zilibotti

It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
w27033 Maria D. Fitzpatrick
Cassandra Benson
Samuel R. Bondurant

Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Role of Teachers and Schools in Reporting Child Maltreatment
w26967 Eric Bettinger
Robert W. Fairlie
Anastasia Kapuza
Elena Kardanova
Prashant Loyalka
Andrey Zakharov

Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function
w26963 Parag A. Pathak
Alex Rees-Jones
Tayfun Sönmez

Reversing Reserves
w26961 Amanda Bayer
Gregory Bruich
Raj Chetty
Andrew Housiaux

Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard
w26959 Joseph G. Altonji
Ling Zhong

The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees
w26953 Yue Ma
Robert W. Fairlie
Prashant Loyalka
Scott Rozelle

Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
w26933 Pierre-André Chiappori
Monica Costa Dias
Sam Crossman
Costas Meghir

Changes in Assortative Matching and Inequality in Income: Evidence for the UK
w26932 Pierre-André Chiappori
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir

Changes in Assortative Matching: Theory and Evidence for the US
w26910 Phillip B. Levine
Jennifer Ma
Lauren C. Russell

Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?
w26864 Donna K. Ginther
Janet Currie
Francine D. Blau
Rachel Croson

Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial
w26858 Chao Fu
Nicolás Grau
Jorge Rivera

Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime
w26849 Jason Abaluck
Giovanni Compiani

A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
w26844 Peter Q. Blair
Tomas G. Castagnino
Erica L. Groshen
Papia Debroy
Byron Auguste
Shad Ahmed
Fernando Garcia Diaz
Cristian Bonavida

Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees
w26822 Hani Mansour
Daniel I. Rees
Bryson M. Rintala
Nathan N. Wozny

The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
w26821 Sandra E. Black
Jeffrey T. Denning
Jesse Rothstein

Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
w26810 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei

Human Capital as Engine of Growth - The Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth Within and Across Countries
w26785 Arpita Patnaik
Joanna Venator
Matthew Wiswall
Basit Zafar

The Role of Heterogeneous Risk Preferences, Discount Rates, and Earnings Expectations in College Major Choice
w26764 Eric A. Hanushek
Paul E. Peterson
Laura M. Talpey
Ludger Woessmann

Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
w26759 C. Kirabo Jackson
Shanette C. Porter
John Q. Easton
Alyssa Blanchard
Sebastián Kiguel

School Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment
w26758 David N. Figlio
Cassandra M.D. Hart
Krzysztof Karbownik

Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
w26748 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Emmanuel Saez
Nicholas Turner
Danny Yagan

The Determinants of Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility: Using Test Scores to Measure Undermatching
w26747 Brad Hershbein
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Luke W. Pardue

College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise
w26734 Alex Rees-Jones
Ran Shorrer
Chloe J. Tergiman

Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching
w26732 James Berry
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Maulik Jagnani

Not Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Fairness Preferences
w26728 Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight

Not All School Shootings are the Same and the Differences Matter
w26715 Janet Currie
Henrik Kleven
Esmée Zwiers

Technology and Big Data Are Changing Economics: Mining Text to Track Methods
w26709 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Na’ama Shenhav

A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement
w26703 Cher Hsuehhsiang Li
Basit Zafar

Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College
w26699 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
Assaf Sarid

Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
w26685 Benjamin W. Cowan
Nathan Tefft

College Access and Adult Health
w26680 Peter Q. Blair
David J. Deming

Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession
w26678 Qing Hu
Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Mingzhu Tai

Finance and Children's Academic Performance
w26649 Justin C. Ortagus
Melvin J. Tanner
Isaac McFarlin Jr.

Can Re-Enrollment Campaigns Help Dropouts Return to College? Evidence from Florida Community Colleges

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