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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
The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.
Ignore 'Open Letters' From Economists
Don’t be swayed by “open” letters signed by well-known and well-respected scholars, experts, professors, and businessmen.
Demystifying the New Deal
Carola Binder reviews False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947 by George Selgin
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Texas Stands on Commerce
Clear limits on shareholder resolutions have made Texas a model of business certainty — and business is flooding in.
The Truth about Chinese Manufacturing
China will remain a major player in global manufacturing, but size and strength are not synonymous.
