This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

A range of policy problems—from climate change to pension sustainability to skill shortages—
confront governments with intertemporal dilemmas: trade-offs between maximizing social …

Socioeconomic gaps in college enrollment and attainment have widened over time, despite
increasing returns to postsecondary education and significant policy efforts to improve …

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start …

“Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?,
Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to …

Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and
sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy …

This paper investigates the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on crime.
Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with geo …

We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from
shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine …

The study of social violence in Latin America has stood at the periphery of cross-national
research despite the region being one of the most violent in the contemporary world. This …

We estimate the effects of relative age in kindergarten using data from an experiment where
children of the same age were randomly assigned to different kindergarten classmates. We …