years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking.With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …

Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a … between education and voting for the US, but not for the UK. Using the information on validated voting, we find that …

Cities in the United States dramatically expanded spending on public education in the years following World War I, with … the first evaluation of these historically unprecedented investments in public education by compiling a new dataset that …

first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece … century, not just in the 1940s, both coinciding with major economic disruptions brought about by war. The returns to education … contributing factor to the decrease in educational returns. Inequality and the returns to education across the entire century …