This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …

among levels of education. However, the distribution of education levels varies over time. Therefore we use a novel … the distribution, not among different levels of education. Our measures of educational mobility are comparable over the … women's education was a major force behind the rise in intergenerational educational mobility in the first decades of the …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …

encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …

using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …