children grow up in such environments. These findings suggest that reducing the black-white income gap will require efforts …We study the sources of racial and ethnic disparities in income using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly … disparities varies substantially across racial groups. For example, Hispanic Americans are moving up significantly in the income …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …

housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … college attendance rates and earnings for children who were young (below age 13) when their families moved. These children … also live in better neighborhoods themselves as adults and are less likely to become single parents. The treatment effects …