Abstract Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental
achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply …

In the past 10 years, there has been an explosion of well-identified studies that measure
peer effects across many settings and for many outcomes. The emphasis on natural …

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 …

Improvements in empirical research standards for credible identification of the causal impact
of education policies on education outcomes have led to a significant increase in the body of …

This article examines the labor market payoffs to different types of postsecondary education,
including field and institution of study. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of the payoff to …

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 …

We use data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of
Head Start, the largest early childhood education program in the United States. Head Start …

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged
groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and …

Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often
interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a
focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant …