We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …

which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …