Education
Higher Education Is Becoming More Politically Polarized
In new research, Riley Acton, Emily Cook, and Paola Ugalde find that college campuses in the United States have become increasingly polarized over the last few decades, and both liberals and conservatives are willing to pay much more to attend colleges with likeminded peers.
A Decentralized Education System Risks Slowing the Adoption of GenAI to the Harm of Students
Eli Orbach examines how the United States’s decentralized education system impedes the diffusion and adoption of generative artificial intelligence in K-12 schools. Slow and uneven diffusion will exacerbate current socioeconomic inequalities, harm students’ future work prospects, and impede macroeconomic growth and productivity.
How the Democratic Party Lost Less-Educated Voters
In a new paper, Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, and Suresh Naidu point to a shift in the Democratic Party’s economic policy, from predistribution to redistribution, as one of the reasons why it has lost less-educated voters.
Education Quality Has Less to Do with Adult Outcomes Than You Might Think
A new paper assesses the contributions of education and labor markets to differences across regional labor markets in the United States and finds that differences in access to...
Excessive Zoning Makes Us Poorer and More Unequal
We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...
