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Are School Counselors an Effective Education Input?
By helping even a few children in the classroom, school counselors could potentially induce widespread academic gains.
We exploit within-school variation in counselors and find that one additional counselor reduces student misbehavior and increases boys’ academic achievement by over one percentile point. These effects compare favorably with those of increased teacher quality and smaller class sizes.
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This paper was originally published by Economic Letters
Economic Dynamism
Automated Detection of Emotion in Central Bank Communication: A Warning
Can LLMs help us better understand the role of emotion in central bank communication?
Defending Technological Dynamism & the Freedom to Innovate in the Age of AI
Human flourishing, economic growth, and geopolitical resilience requires innovation—especially in artificial intelligence.
It’s Not Easy, but We Can All Learn to Think like Adam Smith
To truly understand what a dynamic economy requires, we would do well to recover the 18th-century sensibility that understood dynamism as a social and cultural phenomenon as much as an economic one.
Locked Out of the Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World
The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis.
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Exploring the Future of Latin America and US Relations
The authors examine the promises and perils of the Trump administration and the new governments in Latin America, and look forward to a renewed dialogue with U.S.-based scholars at this moment of opportunity.
A New Consensus in Latin America
During Biden’s administration, U.S. policy appeared passive, even compromised, in the face of these revolutionary developments.
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