Economic segregation increased in the United States between 1970 and 1990. Three hypotheses suggest that this would affect low-income children's educational attainment. The political economy of school funding and predicts that economically segregated school districts reduce the educational...

Households became more geographically segregated by income in the United States between 1970 and 1990. Economic inequality also increased between 1970 and 1990. Using 1970, 1980, and 1990 Census data, I find that an increase in income inequality at the state level is associated with an increased...

I estimate the effect of the change in the Gini coefficient of household income since 1970 on children’s chances of graduating from high school, enrolling in college, and graduating from college by combining PSID data on individual children with state-level data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990...

We use data from the 1985, 1987 and 1991 United States Vital Statistics Linked Infant Birth and Death Records to assess the effect of state-level economic inequality on an infant’s probability of death. We find that economic inequality is associated with higher neonatal mortality even after we...

Households became more geographically segregated by income in the United States between 1970 and 1990. Research shows that growing up in a poor neighborhood is associated with worse outcomes for children. This suggests that economic segregation may be harmful to children. Economic inequality...