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More information: Overlapping Inequalities: Connecting Income Inequality With Health and Education Disparities Motivates Its Reduction, Social Psychological and Personality Science (2025). DOI: 10 ...
This paper presents new results on the relationship between income inequality and education expansion—that is, increasing average years of schooling and reducing inequality of schooling. When dynamic ...
Income inequality between households and regions has rightly emerged as a policy discussion in this election cycle. If we are lucky, and more dire events don't intervene, it will remain part of ...
We Americans have long thought of our public education system as the great equalizer, the route out of poverty for new immigrants, the poor and the ambitious. That was true for a long time, but it ...
Income and education inequality persists, more must be done by Donna Lawrence, contributor - 08/19/16 3:36 PM ET. by Donna Lawrence, contributor - 08/19/16 3:36 PM ET.
Education and income inequality. Economist Bryan Caplan at the Econolog blog highlights a new paper by Theda Skocpol of Harvard University and Suzanne Mettler at Cornell.
It’s a reflection of an inequality in American education that starts long before high school. New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education By Claire Cain Miller ...
On this episode of Potomac Watch, Paul Gigot sits down with economist and former Senator Phil Gramm about his new book The Myth of American Inequality, why government has failed to truly address ...
The belief that higher education leads to higher productivity, which in turn leads to higher wages, is also flawed. While productivity (defined as output per worker) grew by 70% from 1979 to 2018 ...
A mother's level of education can be an important predictor of early childhood overweight and obesity, according to a new international study. The paper looks at the relation between early ...