to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

earnings premiums using a regression discontinuity design. We study the universe of students that applied to the Connecticut … arise through selection of students with high 8th grade tests scores into these industries because they offer a higher …

We use an admissions lottery to estimate the effect of a non-means tested preschool program on students' long …-run earnings, employment, family income, household formation, and geographic mobility. We observe long-run outcomes by linking both … program comes from an Indigenous organization, which grants Indigenous students admissions preference and free tuition. We …

.S. earnings (from the Current Population Survey), consumption, and financial income (both from the Consumer Expenditure Survey … individuals out of unemployment. There is a weakly positive effect on consumption inequality and no effect on financial income …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

We study a unique grading policy at a large US public university allowing students to mask their letter grades into a … "Pass", after having observed their original grade. Using administrative transcript records, we find that female students … are substantially less likely to mask their grades than male students, even after accounting for differences in grades …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …