This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

with between-cohort comparisons of students at schools with small numbers of gifted children per cohort, to evaluate the …. Since most schools have only a handful of gifted students per cohort, the majority of seats are filled by high achievers …-gifted participants, concentrated among black and Hispanic students, who gain 0.5 standard deviation units in fourth grade reading and …

'100 percent' expansion, effective in 1991, extended Medicaid eligibility to children born after September 30, 1983 in … children born just after the cutoff date, and a similar or slightly smaller rise in overall health insurance. It also increased … the fraction of children in the newly eligible group with a doctor visit in the previous year. The '133 percent' expansion …

exerting an even bigger intergenerational effect: at present one-in-ten native born children are in the 'second generation …' born to immigrant parents. In this paper we present a comparative perspective on the economic performance of immigrants and … their children, utilizing data from the 1940 and 1970 Censuses, and from recent (1994-96) Current Population Surveys. We …