Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of … outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances …

lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes … high- and low-income districts. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion … and college-going, concentrated among Black students and women, and raised annual earnings. They also increased the return …

children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court decision on long-run educational …

specific groups of students, large subsidies can modestly help degree completion but harm long run earnings due to lost labor …

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …

in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the … Michigan public school students to adult criminal justice records. The first research design exploits variation in operating … students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood. We …

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …

behind as a counterfactual to one's displacement path. Uprooted children register higher investments in education. Second, we …