The role of human capital in facilitating macroeconomic development is at the center of both
academic and policy debates. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function …

This paper explores the role of civic culture in expanding fiscal capacity by developing a
model based on reciprocal obligations: citizens pay their taxes and the state provides public …

We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college
completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset …

In 2016, 90% of young Americans reported an interest in politics. 80% intended to vote. Yet
only 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 ended up actually casting a ballot …

This article examines the links between education, democratic values, and political trust.
Research on education systems as carriers of modern orientations and democratic values …

This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market
outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors …

An increasing volume of literature has shown that economic freedom is related to life
satisfaction. However, life satisfaction may not fully describe well-being because of its …

Background Over the last decade, the expenditure on public medical and health has
increased greatly in China, however, problems as low efficiency and unfairness still exist …

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American
women a constitutional guarantee to the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of …

The use of extrinsic incentives to steer individual behavior is at the heart of economics and
the effects of monetary incentives for students, parents, and teachers on educational …