Education
Leader: Sean Reardon
The purpose of the Education RG is to examine trends in the extent to which educational access and achievement are related to poverty and family background. The scholars working within this RG are examining state-level differences in the effects of social origins, uncovering the causes of the recent rise in the socioeconomic achievement gap, uncovering the causes of the yet more recent turnaround in this rise (among kindergarten children), and examining the ways in which high-achieving children from poor backgrounds can be induced to go to college. The following is a sampling of relevant CPI projects.
Reducing the race gap in test scores: How can the black-white gap in achievement test scores be eliminated? The new Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) will provide the most systematic evidence to date on the capacity of school-district policies to reduce the gap.
Colleges and rising income inequality: Are colleges delivering upward mobility for those raised in poverty? The new “Mobility Report Card” will provide unusually detailed data on this fundamental question.
Poverty and schooling on reservations: The noted ethnographer Martin Sánchez-Jankowski is examining how education on reservations can be reformed to reduce dropout, poverty, and suicide.
Featured Examples
Education - CPI Research
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States | Solon, Gary |
Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United StatesAuthor: Solon, GaryPublisher: American Economic Review Date: 06/1992 |
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Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement | Angrist, Joshua and Victor Lavy |
Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic AchievementAuthor: Angrist, Joshua and Victor LavyPublisher: Quarterly Journal of Economics Date: |
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Diverging Destinies: How Children are Faring under the Second Demographic Transition | Sara McLanahan |
Diverging Destinies: How Children are Faring under the Second Demographic TransitionAuthor: Sara McLanahanPublisher: Demography Date: |
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What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas? | Larry M. Bartels |
What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?Author: Larry M. BartelsPublisher: Journal of Political Science Date: |
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How Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children? | Duncan, Greg J., Jean W. Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn |
How Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?Author: Duncan, Greg J., Jean W. Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-GunnPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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education - CPI Affiliates
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David H. Autor |
Ford Professor of Economics, Director of National Bureau of Economic Research Disability Research Center; Co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Michael Olneck |
Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and Sociology |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Eamonn Callan |
Pigott Family School of Education Professor, Emeritus |
Stanford University |
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Michele Lamont |
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies |
Harvard University |
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Elizabeth Frankenberg |
Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy; Professor in the Department of Economics; Professor in the Department of Sociology |
Duke University |
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Education - Other Research
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Class, Status, Party | Max Weber | ||
The Making of the New English Working Class | E.P. Thompson | ||
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for Men | Patricia A. McManus and Thomas A. DiPrete |
Losers and Winners: The Financial Consequences of Separation and Divorce for MenAuthor: Patricia A. McManus and Thomas A. DiPretePublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Class counts: comparative studies in class analysis | Erik Olin Wright |
Class counts: comparative studies in class analysisAuthor: Erik Olin WrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press Date: |
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Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare | Easterlin, Richard |
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal WelfareAuthor: Easterlin, RichardPublisher: University of Chicago Press Date: |
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