BFI Working Papers

Sharing research in progress—and refining it through rigorous discussion and debate—is a hallmark of scholarship at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
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BFI Working Paper Sep 8, 2023

From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Anjali Adukia, Benjamin Feigenberg, Fatemeh Momeni
Topics:  K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Aug 29, 2023

Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Adolescent Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Analysis

Christopher S. Cotton, Brent R. Hickman, John List, Joseph Price, Sutanuka Roy
Topics:  Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jul 13, 2023

The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’ Zones of Choice

Christopher Campos, Caitlin Kearns
Topics:  K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jul 13, 2023

Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Self-Selection and Match Effects

Jesse Bruhn, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn
Topics:  K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jun 12, 2023

Pricing Neighborhoods

Sadegh Eshaghnia, James Heckman, Goya Razavi
Topics:  Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Apr 3, 2023

What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books

Anjali Adukia, Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, Teodora Szasz
Topics:  Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jul 26, 2022

The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact

Evan K. Rose, Jonathan T. Schellenberg, Yotam Shem-Tov
Topics:  K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jul 25, 2022

Screening with Multitasking

Michael Dinerstein, Isaac M. Opper
Topics:  K-12 Education, Employment & Wages, Industrial Organization