Who is getting a college education? Family background and the growing gaps in enrollment

Securing the Future: Investing in Children From Birth to College

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 283-324

  Ellwood, David T ^a   Kane, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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