The location choices of households with children connect housing, labor, and school
markets. These connections may shape the city structure, access to opportunities and the …

School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools
and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan …

This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact
of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem …

In this paper I study how school desegregation by race following Brown v. Board of
Education affected White individuals' racial attitudes and politics in adulthood. I use …

We study matching markets with aligned preferences and establish a connection between
common design objectives--stability, efficiency, and fairness--and the theory of optimal …

This dissertation is a collection of three papers on empirical methods in matching systems. In
Chapter 1, I study the estimation of treatment effects in the context of randomized controlled …

This thesis consists of three chapters on labor economics and the economics of education.
The first two chapters study the reasons behind racial disparities in school choices and …

More than one million students in the United States experience homelessness annually.
Among their challenges is getting to school. This paper uses novel administrative data and a …

The effect of school socioeconomic composition, or school SES, on student achievement
has long been an area of interest for policymakers and scholars alike. The Coleman Report …

Essays on Human Capital, Geography, and the Family by Garrett Anstreicher A dissertation
submitted in partial fulfillment of th Page 1 Essays on Human Capital, Geography, and the …