Bailey, Martha J.; Dynarski, Susan M. - 2011
.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. We find growing gaps between children from high- and low-income … education of the daughters of high-income parents. Sex differences in educational attainment, which were small or nonexistent … for low-income cohorts born around 1980 relative to cohorts born in the early 1960s, but by 18 percentage points for …
