abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … overseas countries, like the United States, and falling inequality in most of Europe. Falling unskilled labor scarcity and …

School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood …. While Boston's school choice plan gives priority to neighborhood applicants for half of each school's seats, the intended … neighborhood priority, the outcome of Boston's implementation of a 50-50 school split is nearly identical to a system without …

the neighborhood, ignoring spillovers may over- or under-predict overall ITN use resulting from a specific targeting rule … ITN use rises with neighborhood subsidy-rates, (ii) under means-testing, predicted ITN use is a convex increasing function …

We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO …