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Research Spotlight: Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women’s Employment
Research Spotlight: Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Research Stories

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July 31, 2019

The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Itzhak Gilboa
July 10, 2019

Dali Yang on the Restructuring of the Chinese State

Dali Yang
70

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

July 9, 2019

Research Spotlight: Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women’s Employment

Stefania Albanesi
67

Family Inequality (FI)

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Working Papers

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August, 2019
2019-049

Instruction Time, Information, and Student Achievement. Evidence from a Field Experiment

Simon Calmar Andersen, Thorbjørn Sejr Guul, Maria Knoth Humlum
66

Prior research has shown that time spent in school does not close the achievement gap between students with low and high socioeconomic status (SES).

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

August, 2019
2019-048

Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence

Stephanie von Hinke, Nigel Rice, Emma Tominey
66

We identify the causal effect of mothers' mental health during early -  and soon after pregnancy on a range of child psychological, socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes measured between ages 4-16.

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

August, 2019
2019-047

The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System

Eric Brunner, Shaun Dougherty, Stephen Ross
70

We examine the effect of admission to 16 stand-alone technical high schools within the Connecticut Technical High School System (CTHSS) on student educational and labor market outcomes.

Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Volumes

The Oxford Series on Human Capital and Economic Opportunity will present state-of-the-art research from a variety of perspectives on the problems of opportunity, human flourishing, and public policy. Volumes in the series will be grouped in accordance with these themes and will be based on the work of HCEO members. In some cases, the volumes will contain research first presented at HCEO conferences, and in others will contain specially commissioned research. The series is published by the Oxford University Press.