attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … quality of local schools, with bigger effects for the children of less-educated parents. We then narrow our focus to black …We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and …

In response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school … controlled trial with C&C in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to students in grades 1-8. Program participation … decreased absences in grades 5-7 by 4.2 days, or 22.9 percent, but with no detectable effects on students in grades 1-4. We also …

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 …

Low-income students, even those with strong academic credentials, are unlikely to attend a highly selective college …. With a field experiment, we test an intervention to increase enrollment of low-income students at the highly selective … University of Michigan. We contact students (as well as their parents and principals) with an encouragement to apply and a …

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 …