"Intelligent analysis of poverty and income distribution in Bolivia during late 1980s-early 1990s. Includes simulations of the evolution of poverty under different future growth scenarios. Poverty rates fell between 1989-92 among all socioeconomic strata, but income distribution worsened because...

"America's educational system excels in at least one area: university-based research. Why? Miguel Urquiola, an economist of education, argues that the key is that the United States takes a free market approach to education. Urquiola begins by showing how dominant American universities are in...

This paper reviews the progress economists have made towards achieving an evidence-based educational policy, and highlights challenges that remain. The five main findings are: (1) over the past two decades, much effort has gone into identifying the causal effects of school inputs; this work has...