For an economy with altruistic parents facing productivity shocks, the optimal estate taxation is progressive …: fortunate parents should face lower net returns on their inheritances. This progressivity reflects optimal mean reversion in …

leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups power over resource … in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …

school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …

and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …

result in income or health gains …

students report statistically significant declines in the proportion that would choose the same college again, preparation for … getting along with other racial groups, and development of leadership skills, relative to black students in TWIs. On the … relative decline in pre-college credentials (e.g., SAT scores) of students attending HBCUs and expenditures per student at …

between different groups of students and potentially a winner-take-all educational system. In this paper, we argue that, these …

Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over … Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach … students enrolled in these schools at baseline. These two models provide blueprints that can be replicated inside other …