persistence of at-risk students at scale …

markets. These constraints imply cross-sectional patterns for schooling, ability, and family income that are consistent with U … -- schooling relationship for low-income youth. We show that the rising empirical importance of familial wealth and income in …

event-study analyses focusing on students that attend targeted schools and therefore exposed to major campus renovations …

This paper considers dynamic optimal income, education, and bequest taxes in a Barro-Becker dynastic setup. Parents can … unrestricted policies and show that, if education is highly complementary to children's ability, it is optimal to distort parents … transfer resources to their children in two ways: First, through education investments, which have heterogeneous and stochastic …

design. H&R Block tax professionals helped low- to moderate-income families complete the FAFSA, the federal application for …

textbook provision has a large impact on test scores. Disaggregating the results by students? initial academic achievement … suggests a potential explanation for the lack of an overall impact. Textbooks increased scores for students with high initial … academic achievement and increased the probability that the students who had made it to the selective final year of primary …

.67 percentage-point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty; effects are much more pronounced for children from low-income …-representative data on children born between 1955 and 1985 and followed through 2011. We use the timing of the passage of court …

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

Analyses of income inequality have identified the importance of increased demand for worker skills, but … characterizations of worker skills by the amount of schooling attained do not capture important aspects of the widening income … quality is an important component of the changing income distribution. The central analysis focuses on how governmental …