Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

Since the'80s the US has experienced not only a steady increase in income inequality, but
also a contemporaneous increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census …

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their
development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may …

This paper extends a canonical model of intergenerational human capital investment to a
geographic context to study the role of migration in influencing income mobility in the United …

We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is
determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to …

Governments invest more than $3 trillion in education annually (World Bank 2022). This
investment targets students locally, but graduates migrate and seek employment nationally …

Public school funding depends heavily on local property tax revenue. Consequently, low-
income households have limited access to quality education in neighborhoods with high …

This entry considers the interplay of education and inequality along two related dimensions.
First, the extent to which education is unequally distributed through the population is …