In the contemporary United States, higher education is touted as the primary vehicle for upward mobility. Despite the introduction of numerous policies that encourage working-class students to attend college, class inequalities in enrollment persist. Existing explanations of the enrollment gap...

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...