Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated, using unique data on 3rd and 4th graders in 9 Latin American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these grades, providing exogenous variation in...

In the Schumpeterian conception, innovation is the ‘perennial gale of creative destruction' (Schumpeter 1976 [1942], p. 84). This evolutionary pro-cess consists of two entangled but distinct forces; the creation phase and the de-struction phase. This insight has been applied to non-market...

School voucher and education tax credit programs have proliferated in the United States over the past two decades. Advocates have argued that they will enable families to become active consumers in a free and competitive education marketplace, but some fear that these programs may in fact bring...

The 2007 Supreme Court decisions Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education have been regarded as a retreat of federal judicial interventions into U.S. schooling. This article situates those decisions within the...