Based on the 2016 Canadian Census of Population, some immigrant groups have higher entry-earning returns on their ability than others, and experience a lot more variation in earnings given similar variations in ability compared to other groups. The uneven variance in earnings given similar...

This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and quality of education. We characterize constrained efficient allocations and derive conditions under which...

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...