A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … is transferred genetically to children. This paper considers empirical strategies that control for both observed and … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …