parents and children. We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend …This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing … of housing debt that parents hold but does not reduce student debt for children …

/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that these matching effects are … of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred specification. Further …, universities appear to have responded to Prop 209 by investing more in their students, explaining between 23-64% of the graduation …

, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …

mother reachers her late twenties, she appears to have only slightly more children, is only slightly more likely to be single …

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …