Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to
which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human …

Maternal sensitivity is a modifiable determinant of infant attachment security and a precursor
to optimal child development. Contextual stressors undermine sensitivity, but research was …

We study how the recent housing boom and bust affected college enrollment during the
2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, which improved labor market …

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the
1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to …

Financial misconduct (FM) rates differ widely between major US cities, up to a factor of 3.
Although spatial differences in enforcement and firm characteristics do not account for these …

Although research on terrorism has grown rapidly in recent years, few scholars have applied
criminological theories to the analysis of individual‐level political extremism. Instead …

The present study provides an estimate of the US economic impact of child sexual abuse
(CSA). Costs of CSA were measured from the societal perspective and include health care …

Earlier work demonstrates that career and technical education (CTE) can provide long-term
financial benefits to participants, yet few have explored potential academic impacts, with …

Public school systems in America have come under scrutiny due to the harsh treatment of
students by School Resource Officers (SROs). Incidents of armed, uniformed police in …

Background The school-to-prison pipeline is a relatively recent phenomenon identified by
researchers as a link between negative school outcomes, such as discipline, and …