internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

rates of return that takes into account tuition, income taxes and forms of uncertainty. We also contrast estimates based on …

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …