What happens when high-achieving students are awarded prizes? When two high schools assigned “platinum” and “gold” ID cards to students with high test scores, average performance increased, but the program also created new and unintended inequalities. Check out the paper by CPI New Scholar Andrew Penner and his coauthors.
This four-day workshop will introduce participants to the use of the Survey of Income and Program Participation Synthetic Beta (SSB) and provide hands-on applications to prepare them to conduct their own SSB-based research. Applications are due by May 27, 2016.
Jason Beckfield considers how health inequality in the U.S. stacks up against that of peer countries in the eighth installment of our “State of the Union” video series.
Tel Aviv University professor Alexandra Kalev will present "Criminal Record Checks, Drug Testing and the Employment of Minority Men and Women in Professional and Blue-Collar Jobs."
Wednesday, May 18, Faculty East building, room E247, Graduate School of Business, 12pm
Tufts University professor Natalie Masuoka argues that Americans increasingly accept the idea that individuals can choose identities that were once seen as immutable.
Wednesday, May 18, Brandon Room, Black Community Services Center, 12pm
Harvard University professor Alexandra Killewald argues that marriage has no causal effect on men’s wages and that marriage occurs when wages are already rising unusually rapidly.
Leading scholars present new research on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of academic achievement gaps and educational disparities. Visit the conference website for more information.