agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to compare turnover and pay in Early Care and Education with those in other …

workers' compensation injury claims from Texas. We first document that wildfire smoke increases ambient air pollution …

, with zero marginal cost, than today. We use capacity expansion modelling of Texas in 2050 to illustrate wholesale price …

, college, and earnings registries spanning the state of Texas, we identify relative college value-added by comparing the … the wide diversity of Texas public universities. Selectivity poorly predicts value-added within student choice sets, with …

California and February 2021 in Texas demonstrate, supply shortfalls can have large economic and public health consequences. An …

This paper examines the effect of fall 2020 school reopenings in Texas on county-level COVID-19 cases and fatalities … followed. However, in Texas, reopenings often occurred alongside high community spread and at near capacity, making it … dates for all school districts, we find robust evidence that reopening Texas schools gradually but substantially accelerated …

vaccination effort, Texas became the first state to abolish its statewide mask mandate and fully lift capacity constraints for all … to a resurgence of COVID-19, and (ii) assertions by Texas politicians that a reopening would generate short … no evidence that the Texas reopening led to substantial changes in social mobility, including foot traffic at a wide set …

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

of ability tracking in the US. To fill this gap, we use detailed administrative data from Texas to estimate the extent of …

use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of …