If You Want Intergenerational Mobility, Regulation Matters
It is not uncommon that children follow the same career as their parents. But why? This might be attributed to
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inequality
How to Increase Workplace Diversity? Start by Asking for Diverse Candidates
Many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity among their employees, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence
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Ending Education Apartheid in Zimbabwe Increased Education for Adolescents—And Their Children
UNESCO reports that 200 million adolescents were out of school in 2016. This missed opportunity is especially costly because secondary
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What Happens when Students Must Meet Academic Standards to Receive Need-Based Aid?
College students who receive need-based financial aid typically must meet minimum academic standards to stay eligible, and it’s not well
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When There Aren’t Jobs Close to Home—Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Based on Commute Distance?
Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood
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Jobs for Young, Attractive Women and Older Male Managers? The “Age Twist” in Employers’ Gender Requests
Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests
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State Affirmative Action Bans in Higher Ed—What We Know
New from Brookings, “Why might states ban affirmative action?” by Dominique J. Baker, Assistant Professor of Education Policy at Southern
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Unintended Consequences—How Targeting Schools for Special Benefits in France Can Do More Harm Than Good
Compensatory education policies—policies aimed at offsetting educational inequalities between socially and academically disadvantaged children and more advantaged students—are widely used
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Effective Policy for Reducing Poverty and Inequality? The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income
The United States stands out among industrialized nations as one with high poverty and income inequality. In 2016, the supplemental
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“Growth” in Black–White Test Gap Is Due to Poor Measurement
Our understanding of the age at which the black–white test gap emerges has been hampered by two overlooked factors. Timothy
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