Tomas Cvrcek offers a re-evaluation of the Theresian school reform of 1774 and its
consequences using statistical data on schooling produced by the public administration. As …

This paper examines the individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying
Germans in the United States during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their …

BACKGROUND Segmented assimilation theory asserts that children born to immigrants
experience divergent paths of incorporation. While some exhibit substantial gains in well …

Gelingt es, Bildungsarmut zu vermeiden, wird daher sowohl die Bildungsgerechtigkeit
verbessert und die Einkommensverteilung gleichmäßiger (Anger/Orth, 2016) als auch durch …

Even though place-based policies involve large transfers toward low-income
neighborhoods, they may also produce territorial stigmatization by spotlighting the targeted …

Using the 1972 UK compulsory education reform as a natural experiment, we investigate the
impact of education on occupational and industrial sorting through Quarterly Labour Force …

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Financial Crises and Economic Growth: US Cities, Counties,
and School Districts During the Great Depre Page 1 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Financial …

The construction of public high schools across the United States in the late 1800s and early
1900s transformed the economic opportunities of residents, particularly women, who …

A growing literature demonstrates that birth order affects educational attainment, but the
impact of public policy on sibling inequality remains largely unknown. Using linked historical …

Between 1910 and 1940, the high school graduation rate in the United States increased five-
fold, setting the stage for human capital-led economic growth throughout the 20th century. In …