This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

ability and college attendance for all income and wealth backgrounds; (ii) the rising importance of family income as a …

best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …

selection of students into retention across grades and by abilities. Because existing quasi-experimental methods cannot address … students. Our strategy can be applied more broadly to many time-varying or multiple treatment settings. …