Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social … Security policy. We find little partial effect of democracy on the size of Social Security budgets, on how those budgets are …

This paper studies the determinants of school choice, focusing on the role of information. We consider how parents … neighborhood and measure their capacity to rank the quality of the school with respect to the official rankings. We find that … parents’ education and wealth are important factors in determining their level of school awareness and information gathering …

of the 2000s. While we find no evidence of persistent improvements in school resources, we document discontinuities in …

rewarded according to their absolute performance. A natural experiment that took place in a high school offers an unusual …. To rule out the concern that the effect may be artificially driven by teachers within the school, we verify our results …