centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative data and an information experiment, we show that students and … rival programs hold payoff-relevant information that each program could use to admit students with higher persistence rates …, and find that fully sharing information could significantly increase student persistence and program payoffs, but enabling …

provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine this claim using a 1947 reform that increased the minimum school …, among other things, large classes and a curriculum that promoted practical education. I conclude that my findings shed new …

information collection affects equity analyst performance. Collection of hard information, proxied by office workday length, is … positively associated with the quantity and timeliness of analyst reports. Soft information collection, as proxied by propensity … star analyst. Both hard and soft information collection improve forecast precision, a causal result that we confirm using …

pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment …

used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings … immigrant generations, Hispanics experience substantial improvements in education and earnings between first …

novel method that utilizes recent advances in large language models (LLMs) to recover overlooked information in categorical …, and at the same time, we highlight the LLM's capability to provide additional information conditional on the traditional … information than the administrative data, which makes it impossible to compute most of the traditional match quality measures. Our …