Suspension of face-to-face instruction in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to
concerns about consequences for students' learning. So far, data to study this question have …

We theorize how an ideological imprint—ideology formed through past events—serves as
an information filter that persistently affects individuals' decision making and how …

We examine the consequences of survey underreporting of transfer programs for
prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We link administrative data for four transfer …

This paper reports trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 in the
United States. Analyses of census and Current Population Survey data show that …

We examine the causal effect of education on migration using variation in college attainment
due to draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level …

In this essay, we provide some statistics about the gay and lesbian population in the United
States, and ask if analysis based on economic reasoning can provide insight into the family …

Previous research has estimated that food insecure children are more likely to suffer from a
wide array of negative health outcomes than food secure children, leading many to claim …

We assess whether borrowers know their mortgage terms by comparing the distributions of
these variables in the household-reported Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to the …

We examine gender wage disparities for four groups of college-educated women—black,
Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic white—using the National Survey of College Graduates …

This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational
wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is …