This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college
graduates. We measure changes in the skill content of occupations between 2007 and 2019 …

The Bartik instrument is formed by interacting local industry shares and national industry
growth rates. We show that the typical use of a Bartik instrument assumes a pooled …

We construct publicly available statistics on parents' incomes and students' earnings
outcomes for each college in the United States using deidentified data from tax records …

In dieser Dauerbeobachtung des deutschen Bildungssystems führen die Autorinnen und
Autoren die Analyse bekannter Indikatoren mit neuen Akzenten fort. Schwerpunktthema der …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in
economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and …

This report documents differences in the earnings and employment patterns of US adults
with different levels of education. It also compares health-related behaviors, reliance on …

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 …