We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is
determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to …

Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion to estimate the returns to schooling in
Indonesia. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data …

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate
anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate …

This article quantifies the role played by education in the decline of global poverty. Drawing
on a model of education and the wage structure, I propose tools for “distributional growth …

Neighborhoods have a profound and lasting impact on children's economic outcomes later
in life, challenging the equality of opportunity promised by the American Dream. We develop …

Many policy problems involve designing individualized treatment allocation rules to
maximize the equilibrium social welfare of interacting agents. Focusing on large-scale …

Abstract∗ This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on
individual schooling attainment and migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I …

How does spatial economics differ in low-and middle-income locations where many markets
are missing? This handbook chapter reviews the patterns of urbanization across the globe …

This article quantifies the role played by education in the decline of global poverty. I propose
tools for identifying the contribution of schooling to economic growth by income group …

Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change largely rely on climate
anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate …