slavery affects inequality (like Bertocchi and Dimico, 2014), white Americans' political attitudes towards race (like Acharya …This study investigates the long-term relationship between slavery and violent crime in the USA. Although qualitative … evidence suggests that slavery perpetuated violence, there has been no large-N study supporting this claim. Using county …

progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …