School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into...

We examine the mobility of minority executives, defined as ethnic minority and female executives, in publicly listed US firms. Minority executives as a whole experience lower promotion, higher demotion, and higher exit than Caucasian males. These differences are driven by female and African...

This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...