daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our main conclusion is that family background appears to exert greater influence on economic …

reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement. The estimates are precise enough … the presence of black students in a class, in an of itself, has no effect on achievement. I demonstrate that estimates of …

This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the effects of family and … accurate than those of many earlier studies. We find substantial disadvantages in economic status for black men, men from lower-income …

students respond to their menus' like rational human capital investors. Whether they make the investments efficiently is … aptitude students respond to aid in a way that apparently reduces their lifetime present value. While both a lack of … sophistication/information and credit constraints can explain the behavior of this 30 percent of students, the weight of the evidence …

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …