The majority of empirical literature on first generation college students (FGCSs) in the US
asserts that because their parents did not attend college, FGCSs are lacking important …

This paper reviews evidence on young people in Europe and the US making the transition
from school-to-work before and after the 2008 Great Recession. Taking a macro-level …

Despite the special role of tenure-track faculty in society, training future researchers and
producing scholarship that drives scientific and technological innovation, the …

Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in
educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution …

We make use of newly available data that include roughly 5 million linked household and
population records from 1850 to 2015 to document long-term trends in intergenerational …

The children of high-income parents often become high-income adults, while their low-
income peers often become low-income adults. Education plays a central role in this …

We draw on 120 years of biographical data (N= 120,764) contained within Who's Who—a
unique catalogue of the British elite—to explore the changing relationship between elite …

What is the worth of a college degree when higher education expands? The relative
education hypothesis posits that when college degrees are rare, individuals with more …

Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower
levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree …

Researchers have paid increasing attention to issues of access and retention among first-
generation college students but have focused less on their post-college outcomes. We …