Recent stories of soaring student debt levels and under-placed college graduates have
caused some to question whether a college education is still a sound investment. In this …

In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology
to transform learning. As investments in education technology continue to grow, students …

Tutoring—defined here as one-on-one or small-group instructional programming by
teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers, or parents—is one of the most versatile and …

Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs
like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance …

Increasing wealth provides key motivation for students to forgo earnings and struggle
through exams. But, as we argue in this paper, schooling generates many experiences and …

Many studies document an association between schooling and civic participation, but none
credibly investigate causal links. We explore the effect of extra schooling induced through …

This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated
with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal university …

The change to the minimum school-leaving age in the United Kingdom from 14 to 15 had a
powerful and immediate effect that redirected almost half the population of 14-year-olds in …

Thousands of randomly manipulated resumes were sent in response to online job postings
in Toronto to investigate why immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor …

This paper uses compulsory schooling laws to evaluate high school dropout decisions. The
main empirical result is that lifetime wealth increases by about 15% with an extra year of …