Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes … across ages groups. Importantly, the same locations benefit children with equal potency across race or sex. Twenty years of … Army's quasi-random assignment reduces Black-white earnings gaps among the children of Army personnel by 23% …

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct … influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … study interactions of parenting style and peer effects in a model where children's skill accumulation depends on both …