An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...

An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...

The pandemic has revived the longstanding debate about the effect of online versus face-to-face instruction on student achievement. The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence on the impact of online versus face-to-face instruction on student learning outcomes, using rich, transcript-level...

Past research shows that students’ educational outcomes improve when their race is the same as their teachers’ race. One explanation for this finding is the Role Model effect: instructors increase same-race students’ motivation by updating their beliefs on returns to education and...

This paper investigates the role of education in the job search process of the young unemployed workers. Exploiting the variation in education induced by a reform that caused a dramatic increase in the exposed cohorts' educational attainment, and using data obtained from administrative...

An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...