We use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental
education on sons' outcomes. To this end, we use data from the Swedish military enlistment …

Financial education sans opportunities for hands-on experience and knowledge
operationalization may be insufficient for promoting healthy financial behaviors. Financial …

I analyze a new set of data on Korean American adoptees who were quasi-randomly
assigned to adoptive families. I find large effects on adoptees' education, income, and health …

Is the intergenerational educational link due to nature or nurture? In order to answer this
dilemma, this paper identifies the effect of parental education on their offspring's schooling …

In the 1980s and 1990s many states adopted tort reforms. It has been argued that these
reforms have reduced the practice of defensive medicine arising from excess tort liability. We …

We examine the causal effect of education on migration using variation in college attainment
due to draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level …

We consider the effects of student ability, college quality, and the interaction between the
two on academic outcomes and earnings, using data on two cohorts of college enrollees …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To
identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a …

Empirical researchers often combine multiple instrumental variables (IVs) for a single
treatment using two-stage least squares (2SLS). When treatment effects are heterogeneous …

Despite extensive research, policies, and practical efforts to improve college readiness in
the United States, a large proportion of low-income students remain unprepared to enter and …