This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We
begin with a discussion of methodological issues: when (and why) is a lab experiment the …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

We show that the vast majority of very high-achieving students who are low-income do not
apply to any selective college or university. This is despite the fact that selective institutions …

Matching problems with preferences are all around us: they arise when agents seek to be
allocated to one another on the basis of ranked preferences over potential outcomes …

Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's
racial and socioeconomic mix. The importance of school characteristics in the housing …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

School segregation is determined both by residential sorting and local policies, such as the
drawing of attendance boundaries and school siting. This paper develops an approach to …

We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey,
administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating …

We use student assignment lotteries to estimate the effect of charter school attendance on
student achievement in Boston. We also evaluate a related alternative, Boston's pilot …