Introductory comments
- Sean Reardon – “Income, Inequality, and Educational Success: New Evidence about Socioeconomic Status and Educational Outcomes”
Presentation
Trends in Socioeconomic Disparities in Educational Attainment
- Fabian Pfeffer – “Trends in Wealth Gaps in Educational Attainment”
- Arthur Sakamoto and ChangHwan Kim - “Demographic Trends in Educational Opportunity Using a Market-Based Measure”
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- Greg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Kjetil Telle, and Kathleen Ziol-Guest – “Trends in Family Income and Completed Schooling in the U.S.”Download paper Presentation
- Sandy Jencks – “Session Discussion”Presentation
International Patterns of Socioeconomic Disparities in Educational Outcomes and Social Mobility
- Sean F. Reardon and Anna K. Chmielewski – “Patterns of Cross-National Variation in the Association Between Income and Academic Achievement”Download paper Presentation
- Juan Pablo Valenzuela Barros and Alejandro Sevilla Encinas – “Income, Inequality and Educational Success in the United States: Better News from International Comparisons”Download paper Presentation
- Gosta Esping-Anderson and Sander Wagner – “Asymmetries in the Opportunity Structure. Intergenerational Mobility Trends in Europe”Download paper Presentation
Family Income Dynamics and Educational Outcomes
- Patrick Wightman and Sheldon Danziger - “Multi-Generational Disadvantages in Socioeconomic Status and Educational Attainment”Download paper Presentation
- Pamela Morris, Lisa Gennetian, Heather Hill, Carly Tubbs, and Sharon Wolf - “Income Volatility: Trends and Implications for Families and Children”Download paper Presentation
- Greg Duncan – “Session Discussion”Presentation
Potential Family and Early Childhood Sources of the Widening Disparities
- Robert D. Putnam, Carl B. Frederick, and Kaisa Snellman– “Growing Class Gaps in Social Connectedness among American Youth, 1975-2009”Download paper Presentation
- Sara McLanahan and Patrick Ishizuka– “The Role of Family in Explaining the Growing Income/Test Score Gap”Download paper Presentation
- Sabino Kornrich – “What can Money Buy? Increasing Inequality in Parental Monetary Investments in Young Children” Download paper Presentation
- Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel – “The Role of Early Childhood Education in Changing SES Gaps in Achievement”Download paper Presentation
Schooling and the Widening Educational Disparities
- William Schmidt, Leland Cogan, Richard Houang, and Nathan Burroughs – “Examining the Relationship Between Two Types of SES Gaps: Curriculum and Achievement”Download paper Presentation
- Ann Owens, Sean F. Reardon, and Christopher Jencks – “Trends in Socioeconomic School Segregation, 1970-2009” Download paper Presentation
- Douglas Lauen and S. Michael Gaddis – “Can Schools Close SES Achievement Gaps? The Role of Accountability, Resources, and Teacher Quality”Download paper Presentation
Trends in the Returns to Skills and Implications for Social Mobility
- Richard Murnane, John Willett, and Katie Buckley – “Recent Trends in the Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination” Download paper Presentation
- Yujia Liu and David Grusky – “The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution” Download paper Presentation
Wrap-up discussion