The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

A growing body of cognitive research uses sophisticated behavioral and neuroimaging
measurements to demonstrate associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) and …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent
occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children's developmental …

Prior literature has suggested that teachers who are confident in their abilities to teach,
assess, and manage classroom behavior may be more likely to engage in practices that …

This report documents differences in the earnings and employment patterns of US adults
with different levels of education. It also compares health-related behaviors, reliance on …

Social scientists have documented a substantial increase in both mothers' and fathers' time
spent with children since the 1960s in the United States. Yet parenting behaviors remain …

We address the issue of invisible labor in the home by examining how the distribution of the
mental and emotional labor inherent in managing the household between spouses may be …

Academic achievement gaps between high-and low-income students born in the 1990s
were much larger than between cohorts born two decades earlier. Racial/ethnic …

Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in
parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are …