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 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 Sep 16, 2022

Tales and Tropes: Gender Roles from Word Embeddings in a Century of Children’s Books

Anjali Adukia, Patricia Chiril, Callista Christ, Anjali Das, Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
Topics:  Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper May 26, 2022

Portrayals of Race and Gender: Sentiment in 100 Years of Children’s Literature

Anjali Adukia, Callista Christ, Anjali Das, Ayush Raj
Topics:  Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper May 25, 2022

Measuring Representation of Race, Gender, and Age in Children’s Books: Face Detection and Feature Classification in Illustrated Images

Teodora Szasz, Emileigh Harrison, Ping-Jung Liu, Ping-Chang Lin, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, Anjali Adukia
Topics:  Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper Feb 28, 2020

Spillover Impacts on Education from Employment Guarantees

Anjali Adukia
Topics:  Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages, Health care, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Mar 1, 2019

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction

Anjali Adukia, Sam Asher, Paul Novosad
Topics:  Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages, Health care, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper Jan 1, 2019

Religion and Sanitation Practices

Anjali Adukia, Marcella Alsan, Kim Babiarz, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, Lea Prince
Topics:  Health care, Economic Mobility & Poverty