Racially segregated education was a central pillar propping up the apartheid system in South Africa. The 1953 Bantu Education Act centralized control of black education and linked tax receipts from black to public expenditure on their education. In 1975, expenditure on the average white was more...

This study provides new evidence on trends in disability among the elderly from 1982 to 1996. Logistics analysis is used to estimate the trend in disability prevalence after controlling for age, sex, and proxy reporting. The sample includes 124,949 people ages 70 and older in the 1982-1996...

Although much research has focused on recent increases in annual earnings inequality in the United States, the increases could have come from either of two sources: the distribution of lifetime earnings could have become more unequal or the receipt of lifetime earnings could have become more...

We investigate whether omitted family background variables are responsible for high returns to schooloing estimated in Brazil.

Distinctive issues arise when a demographer must forecast enrollments in a context of court-ordered desegregation. The key issue studid here is whether magnet schools have strengthened a district's overall attractiveness to enrollees from outside or merely siphoned students away from other...