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Vigorous debate continues over the issue of “right-to-work” (RTW) laws, and how they affect a state’s economic growth and wage rates. Right-to-work laws make it illegal to require workers i...

https://investinginkids.net/2016/01/05/what-do-we-know-about-right-to-work-laws-and-state-prosperity-not-much-because-of-limited-variation-over-time-in-which-states-are-rtw-states/

A recent paper by me and a research analyst at the Upjohn Institute, Nathan Sotherland, analyzes the effects of “place-based” college scholarship programs on local economic development. Over ...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/12/09/human-capital-programs-can-promote-local-economic-development-as-illustration-consider-promise-style-place-based-college-scholarship-programs/

In a paper released on June 25, 2015, the Kalamazoo Promise college scholarship program is estimated to increase college completion by one-third.  The college completion effects of the Promise w...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/06/25/kalamazoo-promise-boosts-college-completion-by-one-third/

On May 27, 2015, the Upjohn Institute released a report on Michigan’s school finance system and how to reform it to improve student performance in Michigan, and lessen disparities among childre...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/05/28/increasing-educational-performance-and-reducing-educational-disparities-is-more-feasible-if-pursued-through-high-productivity-interventions-including-but-not-limited-to-early-childhood-education/

On Monday, May 4, the New York Times gave prominent coverage to two recent papers that provide strong evidence that better neighborhoods or local areas for young children make a large difference ...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/05/05/the-importance-of-neighborhoods-for-child-development/

Professor William Lazonick of the University of Massachusetts Lowell has a provocative recent paper, written for the Institute for New Economic Thinking, outlining his views on how some of the ad...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/04/30/the-challenges-posed-by-short-termism-in-corporate-decision-making-and-what-it-implies-for-policies-to-promote-broader-prosperity/

I have a new paper published that bears on the following important issue: when will local economic development incentives – various types of customized tax breaks or services to individual busi...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/04/13/what-are-the-best-paths-to-prosperity-for-localities-and-the-nation/

In my new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, I put early childhood education in the context of other efforts to increase high-wage employment. Early childhood education is by no means the only p...

https://investinginkids.net/2014/10/14/early-childhood-education-is-a-good-we-know-how-to-do/

As argued in my new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, expanded early childhood education represents a continuation of the American historical tradition of promoting economic opportunity and gro...

https://investinginkids.net/2014/10/13/why-early-childhood-education-now/

In my new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, I put early childhood education in a historical context. The U.S. has long seen expanded education as a key to promoting a better economy. The U.S. w...

https://investinginkids.net/2014/10/10/early-childhood-education-is-a-continuation-of-an-american-tradition-of-promoting-economic-growth-through-education/