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 …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …

integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and … discuss the disadvantage of immigrants and their children relative to natives. We show that immigrants - in particular those …

affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children …