originally thought. We provide evidence on the intergenerational impact of policy by showing that educational reform in Sweden … reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to … improved family resources and to better parenting. …

by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions … their careers, while job mobility is important for workers who acquire skills in an apprenticeship scheme before labor …

postsecondary education could rationalize this result, we argue this might also suggest that individuals lack information at the …

endowment based on health at birth. When we do, we find that parents invest more in highly endowed children. Moreover, we find … capital are complements in the production of later human capital (dynamic complementarity) and that parents invest more in … children with higher endowments due to the complementarity between endowments and investments (static complementarity). For the …

Understanding how returns to higher education vary across degree programs is critical for effective higher education …-based admissions rules at more than 1,100 degree programs to study how the long-run earnings effects of college admission depend on … better college preparation for students from low-income backgrounds. …

There is growing concern that improving the academic skills of disadvantaged youth is too difficult and costly, so … policymakers should instead focus either on vocationally oriented instruction for teens or else on early childhood education. Yet … provides disadvantaged youth with non-academic supports that try to teach youth social-cognitive skills based on the principles …

define "middle class" as families in which both parents are not highly-educated (above 12 years of education) and that are … neither in the bottom fourth nor in the top 10 percent of the distribution family income in the U.S. Our findings suggest that … credit conditions, the ability of an individual to benefit from college, and a family's financial and educational …

years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has …

This paper considers the role that high levels of income inequality and low rates of social mobility play in driving … the educational attainment of youth in low-income households in the United States. Using high school degree status from …, who grow up in locations with greater levels of lower-tail income inequality and lower levels of social mobility are …