What economists found when they tracked 1,676 students, their homework, and their hidden barriers to learning. The short version: The gap between struggling students and their peers is not about effort. It is about learning speed. And learning speed responds…

A new study tracks 6,430 students, their phone records, and their starting salaries. The finding that will surprise you isn’t about your own phone.  Based on: Panle Jia Barwick, Siyu Chen, Chao Fu, Teng Li, Digital Distractions with Peer Influence:…

Economists find that two children from the same family income can face vastly different futures based solely on which side of town they grew up on. Based on: Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya…