This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

ability and college attendance for all income and wealth backgrounds; (ii) the rising importance of family income as a …

markets. These constraints imply cross-sectional patterns for schooling, ability, and family income that are consistent with U … -- schooling relationship for low-income youth. We show that the rising empirical importance of familial wealth and income in …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …