Although hundreds of studies have documented the association between family poverty and
children's health, achievement, and behavior, few measure the effects of the timing, depth …

THE LEVEL of the nation's investment in children is enormous. Government expenditures on
elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schooling alone totaled about $372 billion in …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the socioeconomic status (SES) school
segregation in Chile, whose educational system is regarded as an extreme case of a market …

The problem of high savings and low consumption of Chinese rural households has long
been a source of concern. The popularity of mobile payments may help alleviate this …

This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest …

Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today,
but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research, however, usually measures …

We estimate peer effects in paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity
design. Coworkers and brothers are 11 and 15 percentage points, respectively, more likely …

The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on
microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated. The second edition of this …

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literatures analyzing games in which players
are connected via a network structure. We discuss, in particular, the impact of the structure of …

Household-level panel data from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian
households describing the adoption and profitability of high-yielding seed varieties (HYVs) …