on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational …

between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … education. Holding constant school quality measures, however, we find no evidence that parental income or education affects …This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

There is much public discussion but almost no evidence on the effects of high school curriculum on postsecondary … education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … courses in academic subject is small. One cannot account for the value of a year of high school with estimates of the value of …

This paper uses the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China as a natural experiment to examine how the housing market reacted … analyze the pricing behavior of units in lower versus upper floors before and after the earthquake. We observe that average … in the first and second floor, considerably increased for several months after the earthquake. This relative pricing …

2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … suggests a bigger role for supply disruptions that restricted the ability of retailers to re-stock goods after the earthquake …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake on the spatial distribution of economic … activity in the American West. Using variation in the potential damage intensity of the earthquake, we show that more severely … attractive migration destinations in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which permanently changed the spatial …