How do early-life experiences shape political identity? We examine the end of race-based busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, an event that led to large changes school racial composition. Using administrative data, we compare party affiliation adulthood for students who had lived on opposite sides newly drawn boundaries. Consistent with contact hypothesis, find a 10 percentage point increas...

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay for performance (P4P). At recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned “pay-for-percentile” or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits placed, an unexpected, incentive-compatible, school-level re-randomization was performed so that some teachers who applied contrac...

We study labor market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland. Admission track increases initial annual income, and this benefit persists at least through mid-thirties, present discount value calculations suggest that it is unlikely life cycle will turn negative retirement. Moreover...

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students randomly assigned to at least one teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 percent) more likely graduate from high school and 6 (19 enroll college compared their schoolmates who not. teachers have no significant long-run effects on White students. Postsecondary education results driven by two-year colleges...

School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children apply schools outside of their neighborhood. However, programs also affect incentives live in certain neighborhoods, this feedback may undermine the goals choice. We investigate possibility developing a model public narrows range between highest lowest quality compared neighborhood assignment...

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation US suffrage laws, we show exposure during childhood led large increases educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We...

we study the effect of education and its expenditures, especially in higher education, on poverty and income inequality. using the keynesian approach it is shown that education, from the theoretical point of view, lowers poverty and income inequality level. in an empirical work we, used the data including 111 observations from 91 countries, with different human development levels, and concluded...

This study aims to see the effectiveness of education performance in Indonesia which has been budgeted state budget (APBN) from 1996 2020. can be evaluated number gross enrollment rates aged 15 years and over. The is affected by government spending sector, national per capita income, literacy rate that measured literacy. uses Auto Regression Distributed Level (ARDL) model government's sector sh...

A childhood intervention to improve the social skills and self-control of at-risk kindergarten boys in 1980s had positive impacts over life course: higher trust as adolescents; increased group membership, education, reduced criminality young adults; marriage employment adults. Using administrative data, we find this average yearly income by about 20 percent decreased transfers almost 40 percent...

I address the spread and wage implications of schooling mismatches, given the possible lack of synchronisation in the education system-labour market relationship. My main contribution is in studying the role of unobserved heterogeneity in the overand under-education phenomena, by drawing on a matched employer-employee panel. I find that the identification of the key parameters is made difficult...