Education and Skills

Abramitzky, Ran, Leah Boustan, Peter Catron, Dylan Connor, and Rob Voigt. “The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century”.

Dupas, Pascaline, Camille Falezan, Seema Jayachandran, and Mark Walsh. “Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing With Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana”.

Abramitzky, Ran, Leah Boustan, Peter Catron, Dylan Connor, and Rob Voigt. “Refugees Without Assistance: English-Language Attainment and Economic Outcomes in the Early Twentieth Century”.

Li, Hongbin, Lingsheng Meng, Kai Mu, and Shaoda Wang. “English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality: Evidence of 16 Million College Applicants in China”.

Duflo, Ester, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer. “The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana”.

Jia, Ruixue, and Hongbin Li. “Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score: Elite College Admission and Wages in China”.

Hanushek, Eric, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, and Ludger Woessmann. “Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking”.

Ma, Yue, Robert Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, and Scott Rozelle. “Isolating the ‘Tech’ from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China”.

Abebe, Girum, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, and Simon Quinn. “Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design”.

Hanushek, Eric. “Addressing Cross-National Generalizability in Educational Impact Evaluation”.

Stojanovski, Ognen, Mark Thurber, Frank Wolak, George Muwowo, and Kat Harrison. “Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Rural Off-Grid Regions: Challenges and Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial”.

Abramitzky, Ran, Victor Lavy, and Santiago Perez. “The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling”.

Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Reenan. “Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare”.

Loyalka, Prashant, Anna Popova, Guirong Li, Chengfang Liu, and Henry Shi. “Unpacking Teacher Professional Development”.

Ranganathan, Aruna. “Train Them to Retain Them: Facilitating Organizational Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India”.

Lu, Meichen, Prashant Loyalka, Yaojiang Shi, Fang Chang, Chengfang Liu, and Scott Rozelle. “The Impact of Teacher Professional Development Programs on Student Achievement in Rural China”.

Fouka, Vasiliki. “Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools After World War I”.

Abebe, Girum, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, and Simon Quinn. “Anonymity or Distance? Experimental Evidence on the Obstacles That Young People Face in the Labour Market”.

Hanushek, Eric, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, and Ludger Woessmann. “Coping With Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills”.

Jia, Ruixue, and Hongbin Li. “Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium, and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China’s College Entrance Exam”.