ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits
that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can …

US cities have recently increased the share of their budgets devoted to policing and
decreased the share devoted to social services. However, a growing body of research …

The origins of happiness: the science of well-being over the life course Page 2 THE ORIGINS
OF HAPPINESS Page 3 Page 4 The Origins Of happiness The Science of Well-Being over the …

Schools must balance student behavior management with the potential negatives of strict
discipline. These policies can deter misbehavior but may stigmatize students and expose …

We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across
provinces in Argentina to examine how teacher strikes affect student long-run outcomes …

In this article, we study the crime reducing potential of education, presenting causal
statistical estimates based upon a law that changed the compulsory school leaving age in …

School dropout has been extensively studied in the literature as a correlate of negative life
outcomes. A precursor to school dropout is truancy, the unexcused or illegitimate student …

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the
pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary-and secondary-school age were out of …

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

Schools have many available strategies to address problem behavior among students. One
option increasingly used by schools is to suspend problem youth and remove them for …