Which Kids Party Hard?

In “Uncommon Knowledge: Freaks and geeks, and beyond,” the Boston Globe’s Kevin Lewis highlights a JHR paper on how relative

Teacher Effects beyond the Test

Though many studies have shown that teachers have large effects on student achievement, we know little about the degree to

In India, policy-makers have looked to population control as a means of increasing resources per capita and reducing widespread poverty.

Gender bias in families is evident in many regions, but the evidence to date does not allow us to fully

Studies from low-, middle-, and high-income countries show that children brought up in a more favorable early environment benefit in

Because experiences in early childhood are known to influence child development, preschool programs are often viewed as policy interventions with

Our understanding of the age at which the black–white test gap emerges has been hampered by two overlooked factors. Timothy

Researchers—and parents of teenagers—have long suspected that school starts too early in the morning for adolescents. New research by Jenni

Most children in Sub-Saharan Africa are enrolled in school these days, but for reasons not well understood, they learn very

A myriad of studies find that later-born children have worse educational and labor market outcomes as adults than their older