Using data on adults' cognitive skills from nineteen countries, this paper shows that labor
market conditions during the education-to-work transition affected workers' long-term skill …

Children use school as a way to imagine and strive toward their futures. We analyzed
thousands of essays written by children in Britain in the late 1960s about what their lives …

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized
controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash …

We present evidence that is consistent with large disparities across firms in their on-the-job
learning opportunities, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize …

We show how to use randomized participation incentives to test and account for
nonresponse bias in surveys. We first use data from a survey about labor market conditions …

Despite education's potential to reshape societal inequalities, recent gains in broadening
university access across the socioeconomic spectrum have not translated into parallel gains …

Effective teachers matter for students' short and long run outcomes (Chetty et al., 2014).
Accordingly, a common policy objective of governments all over the world is to increase the …

We examine the preferences of low-income households in Kenya over the structure of
unconditional cash transfers. We find, first, that most prefer lumpier transfers, and many …

This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the value of teacher education by
comparing the effectiveness of traditionally trained teachers from teachers' colleges and non …

There are teacher shortages in the US and around the world. In a three-year field
experiment with a large teacher placement program, Teach For America (TFA), Coffman et …