Bringing together ten leading researchers in the field of deliberative democracy, this
important book examines the features of a Deliberative Mini-Public (DMP) and considers …

ABSTRACT Since Coleman (1966), many have questioned whether school spending affects
student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and …

Background Substantial, but indirect, evidence suggests that improving nutrition in early
childhood in develo** countries is a long-term economic investment. We investigated the …

This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an
array of adult socioeconomic and health outcomes. The study analyzes the life trajectories of …

Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early
childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent‐to‐treat model …

Over the six-year period between 1997 and 2003 broad social changes occurred in the
United States: welfare rules changed, the nation's school policies were overhauled, America …

Context: In recent studies, the effects of teenage childbearing on the schooling of young
women have been smaller than those in earlier research. The discrepancy has been …

The existing literature is oriented toward examining how Internet access and use may affect
social capital. The role of social capital in narrowing the digital divides has been frequently …

This paper contributes to the growing literature on energy poverty in develo** countries.
We use a dynamic probit estimator on three rounds of panel data from urban Ethiopia to …

This paper examines a wide variety of forms, and full histories, of family structure to test
existing theories of family influences and identify needs for new theories. The focus is on …