-cognitive skills. Participants in programs that enrich home environments grow up with better skills, jobs, earnings, marital stability … crucial component of successful programs: they activate and promote parenting skills of child caregivers. The home …

-level job task information that allows us to compare the skills acquired in the years just after graduation to the tasks … salary premium when skills align with tasks. Differences in accumulated task-specific human capital explain the between …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …

We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined … find that income inequality and income growth patterns identified from administrative tax records differ in important ways … illustrate IDDA's relevance for understanding income inequality trends. First, we extend Bayer and Charles (2018) beyond earnings …