For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation … during early-childhood is transmitted to children's overall and housing wealth in adulthood, respectively. The corresponding … increases in adult children's home ownership, educational attainment, and earnings. However, earnings and education can explain …

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …

-effects controls, which is consistent with students choosing majors based on comparative advantage. We do not find statistically …

the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on …

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

Since the spring of 2021, nearly 700 colleges and universities in the U.S. have mandated that their students become …

-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low … monotonically with income, and infants of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution---who have the worst birth outcomes … records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file …

short-, medium-, and long-term effects of providing low-income families with low birthweight infants support through the … Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This program uses a birthweight cutoff at 1200 grams to determine eligibility. We find … family income in the first three years of the infant's life. These cash benefits persist at lower amounts through age 10 …