Conference Papers

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
  • Greg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Kjetil Telle, and Kathleen Ziol-Guest – “Trends in Family Income and Completed Schooling in the U.S.

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
  • Juan Pablo Valenzuela Barros and Alejandro Sevilla Encinas – “Income, Inequality and Educational Success in the United States: Better News from International Comparisons
  • Gosta Esping-Anderson and Sander Wagner – “Asymmetries in the Opportunity Structure. Intergenerational Mobility Trends in Europe

Family Income Dynamics and Educational Outcomes

  • Patrick Wightman and Sheldon Danziger - “Multi-Generational Disadvantages in Socioeconomic Status and Educational Attainment
  • Pamela Morris, Lisa Gennetian, Heather Hill, Carly Tubbs, and Sharon Wolf - “Income Volatility: Trends and Implications for Families and Children

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
  • Sara McLanahan and Patrick Ishizuka– “The Role of Family in Explaining the Growing Income/Test Score Gap
  • Sabino Kornrich – “What can Money Buy? Increasing Inequality in Parental Monetary Investments in Young Children
  • Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel – “The Role of Early Childhood Education in Changing SES Gaps in Achievement

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
  • Ann Owens, Sean F. Reardon, and Christopher Jencks – “Trends in Socioeconomic School Segregation, 1970-2009
  • Douglas Lauen and S. Michael Gaddis – “Can Schools Close SES Achievement Gaps? The Role of Accountability, Resources, and Teacher Quality

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
  • Yujia Liu and David Grusky – “The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution