administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …