Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally
constrained by the “impossibility of fairness”(an incompatibility between mathematical …

Research summary: Using qualitative interviews, this study examines how protesters with
varying levels of commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement perceive the slogan …

The authors explore the educational response to fracking—a recent technological
breakthrough in the oil and gas industry—by taking advantage of the timing of its diffusion …

This study examines the impacts of two distinct types of school spending on student
outcomes. State-imposed revenue limits cap the total amount of revenue that a school …

We use novel data on disciplinary referrals, including those that do not lead to suspensions,
to better understand the origins of racial disparities in exclusionary discipline. We find …

We study the effects of prenatal exposure to violent crime on infant health, using New York
City crime records linked to mothers' addresses in birth records data. We address …

This paper provides evidence that exposure to illegal labor markets during childhood leads
to the formation of industry‐specific human capital at an early age, putting children on a …

We provide a unifying empirical framework to study why crime reductions occurred due to a
sequence of state-level dropout age reforms enacted between 1980 and 2010 in the United …

Subjective well-being is defined as how happy and satisfied a person is in his life. To date,
among the significant determinants of subjective well-being, national income is considered …