opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin … groups have closed most of the education gap with the children of natives …

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 …

significant gains in reading and math, concentrated among lower-income and black and Hispanic students. The math gains persist to …Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K-12 students … admission threshold, or a lower bar for disadvantaged students? We use data from a large urban school district to study the …