This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

Many low-income and minority children in the United States and globally are at risk of poor
educational trajectories and, consequently, diminished life courses, because their …

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston
on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes …

Economic research on the safety net has evolved over time, moving away from a focus on
the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings …

This paper monetizes the life-cycle intragenerational and intergenerational benefits of the
Perry Preschool Project, a pioneering high-quality early childhood education program …

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years,
many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the …

Abstract We examine the North Carolina Pre‐K (NC Pre‐K) program to test the hypothesis
that observed variation in effects resulting from exposure to the program can be attributed to …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care,
but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral …

Participation in non‐parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool‐age
children in the US However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for …

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care.
We send emails from fictitious parents to> 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany …