Hundreds of millions of children are losing learning opportunities, resulting in potentially large losses in their lifetime education, health, income, and productivity. Losses in long-term earnings from preprimary program closures due to COVID-19 can be unprecedented. Acute effects are plausible...

We study the impact of an increase in women's education on their age at marriage. Exploiting a regression discontinuity for a large-scale school construction program in India, we find that the program increases women's education by 0.3-1 year but decreases their age at marriage by 0.96 years for...

The NCAA’s NIL policy left a great deal of grey area for schools and conferences to fill in. In this space, collectives have emerged to fill the financial role that booster groups were prohibited from fulfilling, and while NCAA policy still prohibits pay-for-play schemes, collectives have...

La educación superior ha sido tradicionalmente ofertada por instituciones públicas y privadas sin ánimo de lucro. Sin embargo, algunos países permiten la existencia de instituciones de educación superior con ánimo de lucro, las cuales cada vez se consolidan más al incrementar el número...

There is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much lower attainments of those from Asian and African countries compared to the rest - Mizrahim vs. Ashkenazim, respectively. Some explanations (especially older ones) have...

Over the last decade, the federal government has directed schools to provide educational instruction for students with special needs in general education setting to the extent possible. While there is mixed evidence on the effects of these inclusion policies on the students with special needs,...

Since the fall of 2008, a debate has raged in Washington over "targeted online advertising," shorthand for the customization of Internet ads to match the interests of users. Not only are these ads more relevant and therefore less annoying to Internet users than untargeted ads, they are more...

The Federal Trade Commission should avoid laying the groundwork for more onerous regulation of the online advertising marketplace, which could become the equivalent of a disastrous industrial policy for the Internet and choke resources needed to fuel e-commerce and online free speech going...

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

Several of the Youth Allowance eligibility criteria for independent status were subject to severe criticism in the recent Review of Australian Higher Education (2008). Specifically, it seems to be the case that many students are able to qualify for socalled “independent-at-home” financial...