How is family income related to investments in children's learning?

Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-205

  Kaushal, Neeraj ^a,b,c   Magnuson, Katherine ^d   Waldfogel, Jane ^a,e  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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