We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. First, access to colleges varies greatly by parent income. Second, children from low and high-income families have very...

Different from common perception, many disabilities do not follow a stable pattern. Persons with disabilities may experience periods of good health in between periods of their limitations and/or experience changes in the severity of their limitations over time. These types of disabilities may be...

Young adulthood is the life stage when the greatest increases in income and wealth typically occur, yet entering into this period during the Great Recession has put Millennials on a different trajectory. As a result, this generation will need to make very large gains in the years ahead to...

No explicit theory or framework consistently describes the goals of social policy or how social policies actually work. By a framework, we mean a consistent way of describing individuals in their relationship to society and its institutions, including how policies affect those relationships, and...

Addressing the educational challenges facing disadvantaged children will require innovations that can create greater equality of opportunity, such that their innate talents and academic effort translate into meaningful access to college. Evidence points to differences in asset accumulation a part...

In this brief, we explore the dynamic patterns of student borrowing across sectors of higher education since 1996. In particular, we examine the role of student demographics, financial need, work behaviour, and educational costs in contributing to the trends in student borrowing. An understanding...