“...This paper synthesizes two models of immigrant assimilation: “positive assimilation” if earnings rise with duration as destination-relevant skills are acquired...”

“...We evaluate the effectiveness of monetary incentives in enhancing student performance using a randomized experiment involving undergraduate students enrolled...”

“...Progress against mortality risk has contributed importantly to growth in the stock of human capital. This progress is occasionally accelerated by unexpected...”

“...In a heterogeneous life cycle economy with human capital accumulation, the option to discharge student loans under a liquidation regime helps alleviate some of...”

“...Early child neurodevelopment has major impacts on future human capital and health. However, not much is known about the impacts of prenatal risk factors on...”

“...We characterize changes over time in the choices high school graduates make concerning 2-year attendance, 4-year attendance, and college nonattendance across...”

“...A two-sector endogenous growth model linking human capital accumulation and income inequality is developed. Productivity increases in the final output sector...”

“...Marital sorting on education is an important but poorly understood source of inequality. This paper analyzes a group of men and women who do not meet their...”

“...The last 40 years have witnessed a remarkable boom in higher education, particularly of women. Today in most higher-income countries and many lower-income...”

“...In the period 1980–2005 tuition at American private colleges more than doubled in real terms, and these institutions grew much wealthier. I develop a model...”