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China's national exam that determines where a student goes to college influences students’ economic prospects for years to come, according to research by Hongbin Li and colleagues.

From India and Zimbabwe to the U.S. and Mexico, a growing body of COVID-era studies indicates the need for building trust in health systems and combatting misinformation [...]

SIEPR senior fellows Pascaline Dupas and Muriel Niederle join more than 90 other economists in producing a study showing how women economists are treated differently than men.

New research by SIEPR's Maria Polyakova and her colleagues shows how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been starkly uneven across race, ethnicity and geography.

Steep taxes and living costs combined with a rise in remote work are threatening California’s role as the center of tech [...]

The pandemic's toll on California is "amplifying inequalities," says SIEPR Director Mark Duggan. "A hell of a lot of people in California are really struggling [...]

"It is time to start harnessing the power of the market rather than the government. That is how we will replace dependency with opportunity and upward mobility," [...]

Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom writes in this op-ed, “For many, working from home has been a productivity disaster."

A worrisome global scenario draws on a study by Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke on the effect of climate change on economic inequality.

Ed Lazear’s recently published research found flaws in long-held theories of how immigrants with varying education levels manage to migrate to the US & other advanced countries.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Joseph Grundfest discusses the constitutional issues raised by legislation that uses race or gender as a basis for a quota.

Research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Thomas Dee shows that Black students with Black teachers score higher on reading tests than those who did not.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon discusses how the pandemic might be affecting parents' decisions of whether to enroll their children in public or private schools.

"The pandemic did not only lay bare the implications of the digital divide, it also created a laboratory for studying how best to bridge the divide," says Greg Rosston.

The dream of intergenerational mobility is alive: children of immigrants generally experience greater socioeconomic success than they themselves do, according to Ran Abramitzky.

»ÆÉ«µçÓ° Graduate School of Business Dean Jonathan Levin & Associate Dean Sarah Soule discuss the school's action plan for increasing racial equity, pointing out the need for [...]

"There is little data about how the school closings in the spring affected children from different racial or socioeconomic backgrounds," said SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon.

A recent study coauthored by Rebecca Diamond found that affordable housing developments led to crime reductions in low-income areas & had no effect in higher-income neighborhoods.