documenting three facts using population tax records for children born in the 1980s. First, gender gaps in employment rates …, earnings, and college attendance vary substantially across the parental income distribution. Notably, the traditional gender … gap in employment rates is reversed for children growing up in poor families: boys in families in the bottom quintile of …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find …

In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

mobility. If children with low-SES parents were to grow up in counties with economic connectedness comparable to that of the … upward income mobility identified to date, whereas other social capital measures are not strongly associated with economic … average child with high-SES parents, their incomes in adulthood would increase by 20% on average. Differences in economic …

outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility. Here, we analyze the determinants of cross-class interaction using …-SES friendships (economic connectedness). Using fluctuations in the share of high-SES students across high school cohorts, we show …

child's probability of attending college and her parents' income rank. We also calculate transition probabilities, such as a … these measures, we find that children entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income … distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … the present value of students' lifetime income by approximately $250,000 per classroom …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …

utility model. I derive a formula for the coefficient of relative risk aversion (g) in terms of (1) the ratio of the income …