Concerns about the breadth of the U.S. income distribution and limited intergenerational mobility have led to a focus …

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

determined bequests from parents that can be used to finance schooling, uncertainty in college completion related to differences … structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

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 …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …