Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income

Jesse Rothstein

NBER Working Paper No. 24537
Issued in April 2018

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I thank Audrey Tiew, Leah Shiferaw, Julien Lafortune, and Rachel Young for excellent research assistance as well as Charlie Brown, David Card, Avi Feller, Pat Kline, and conference and seminar participants at NBER, NYU, SOLE, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UCSB, UCSD, UQAM, and the Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar for helpful discussions and comments. I am grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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