initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel …We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

parents, varies across race. Using education data linked to tax records, we find that the income-achievement gap is small for … the variation in the gap across race. Our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students … may be rooted in inequality in special needs status. …

We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data …, our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students may be rooted in inequality in health … outcomes and poor housing conditions. Our findings on income-achievement gaps across race could partially explain the different …

achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …

at least one child born in the cohort of 1975-1985 is matched with Ministry of Education records on all those who … important for academic degrees than for the matriculation certificate. Furthermore, the education and occupation of mothers and …

implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an …A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic … empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as a dependent variable and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first …

In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent … city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities. …

migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …