This paper revisits the issue of estimating the returns to schooling within a framework that allows multiple unobserved skills with potentially time-varying prices where both skills and prices are possibly correlated with schooling. A common approach to addressing the problem of ability bias...

We explore Tinbergen's fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many policy instruments as targets. We extend this idea using a large natural field experiment in water resource management. We use social comparisons and loss-framed messages to help achieve two goals of our partner...