Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on
education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making …

The issue of one's identity has loomed large recently and has unfortunately been used more
and more as a wedge to separate subgroups. It is important to understand the ramifications …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment
and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors …

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are
imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to …

Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human
behavior, revealing how our identities—and not just economic incentives—influence our …

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show that
the distribution of the share of income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of …

The economics of organizations is replete with the pitfalls of monetary rewards and
punishments to motivate workers. If economic incentives do not work, what does? This paper …

We present a laboratory experiment that measures the effects of induced group identity on
social preferences. We find that when participants are matched with an ingroup member …

An extensive theoretical and qualitative literature stresses the promise of instructional
practices and content aligned with minority students' experiences. Ethnic studies courses …