provision. We find that low-income families prioritize proximity to schools while high-income families and families with high …-income families are less exposed to the inflow of low-income children into their schools, either because of their longer distance from …We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools …

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change … schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and retention. Homeless high schoolers have 5 percent (2.5 days) better …

consequences for ex-felons, their families, and their neighborhoods. One consequence felon disenfranchisement laws and low levels … partners. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, the results find that partner incarceration is …

, their families, and their communities, no study has considered its impact on racial disparities in educational achievement …. Analyzing the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and its rich paternal incarceration data, this study asks whether …

live taking into account that locations determine access to schools—admissions probabilities and commuting distances to … schools. Households are heterogeneous both in observed and unobserved characteristics. We estimate the model using … explains 30% of the gap in test scores of schools attended by minority students versus their peers. If households’ residential …