Parent Income–Based Gaps in Schooling

Both income inequality and the achievement test score gap between high- and low-income children increased dramatically in the United States beginning in the 1970s. Recent work by Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, and Turner (2014) suggests that, unlike the test score gap, the gap in college enrollment i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, Kenneth T. H. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-04-01
Series:AERA Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858416645834