-based admissions practices and the effect such preferences have on the quality of schools in which minority students enroll, graduation … argue these bans are very informative about how affirmative action affects URM students. Finally, we discuss the evidence on …

coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are … children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance … robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i …

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on … of students within a grade, school and subject, providing substantial variation in group size. We use the share of … students in a grade-subject enrolled in a teacher's classes as a proxy for incentive strength since, as the teacher share …