The goal of federal food and nutrition programs in the United States is to improve the nutritional
well-being and health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the …

We estimate the relationship between local labor market opportunities and child health
using state unemployment rates and demand-induced changes in mothers’ and fathers’ …

This article uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of
worker displacement using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows more than …

Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question
by exploiting data from the US Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to …

Because many individuals do not complete their degrees in the standard number of years,
previous estimates of diploma effects, which have been based only on an individual's years of …

This article attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to
intergenerational immobility by exploiting historical changes in compulsory schooling laws …

Researchers using cross-sectional data have failed to produce systematic evidence that
teacher salaries affect student outcomes. These studies generally do not account for non-…

World War II and its subsequent GI Bill have been widely credited with playing a transformative
role in American society, but there have been few quantitative analyses of these historical …

Tracking programs have been criticized on the grounds that they harm disadvantaged children.
The bulk of empirical research supports this view, but existing studies compare outcomes …

This study proposes using correlations between neighboring children in their later socioeconomic
status to bound the proportion of inequality in socioeconomic outcomes that can be …