Results

CEP discussion paper

Blindly discriminating: the GI Bill and racial inequality

The World War II GI Bill was the largest education subsidy in US history and a cornerstone of the post-war US transition to a knowledge economy. Although formally race-blind, the program's decentralized administration le...Read more...

Journal article

Journal of Human Resources:

Firm and worker responses to extensions in paid maternity leave

This paper investigates how firms and workers respond to a voluntary government-funded program increasing the duration of paid maternity leave from four to six months in Brazil. We show that larger, higher-paying, and mo...Read more...