Born Too Soon? The Educational Costs of Early Elective Deliveries
Libertad González and Parijat Maitra show that even modest shifts in birth timing can have lasting consequences for children’s health and school performance.
Topic Archive: Education
America’s Rise in Human Capital Mobility
Lukas Althoff, Harriet Brookes Gray, and Hugo Reichardt explain that expanding mass education in the US between 1850 and 1950 reduced children’s dependence on their mothers’ education, boosting mobility in both skills and income.
The Great Gatsby Curve and the Carnegie Effect
Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Jordi Caballé and Xavier Raurich study the relationship between inequality and social mobility of people born into families with different levels of income.
How to reduce cheating in online exams
Flip Klijn, Mehdi Mdaghri Alaoui and Marc Vorsatz study whether having a number of different exam versions may reduce cheating at online exams without proctoring.
