Do teachers' expectations directly impact student achievement? We draw on administrative data from North Carolina schools that report both student test scores and teachers' expectations of students' performance on these tests. Employing student fixed effects and instrumental variables strategies...

This paper assesses the impacts of physician-patient race-match on patient mortality. We draw on administrative data from Florida, linking hospital encounters from 2012 through 2014 to information from the Florida Physician Workforce Survey. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that...

This paper provides new evidence on the political and policy consequences of partisan vs. nonpartisan local elections in the context of school board elections in North Carolina. Specifically, we study the impacts of shifting to partisan elections in a difference-in-differences framework. First,...

This article is based on a qualitative study of the relationships between professionals, parents and children in the context of children's therapy after child sexual abuse. Specifically, the study took place in a therapeutic team in England that has developed various ways of involving parents in...