Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

Abstract Since Edward Leamer's memorable 1983 paper,“Let's Take the Con out of
Econometrics,” empirical microeconomics has experienced a credibility revolution. While …

We conduct meta-analysis on a comprehensive set of studies of the impacts of US K-12
public school spending on student outcomes–estimating average marginal impacts and …

In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been
several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and …

We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data
covering nearly the entire US population from 1989 to 2015. We document three results …

Human capital is the stock of skills that the labor force possesses. The flow of these skills is
forthcoming when the return to investment exceeds the cost (both direct and indirect) …

This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor
market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using …

We study the impact of post-1990 school finance reforms, during the so-called “adequacy”
era, on absolute and relative spending and achievement in low-income school districts …

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

We examine all known “credibly causal” studies to explore the distribution of the causal
effects of public K-12 school spending on student outcomes in the United States. For each of …