Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …