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Author: Reardon, Sean F.
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1. Reardon, Sean F.
The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Explanations
In: Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances. G. Duncan and R. Murnane, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Achievement; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Family Income; High School and Beyond (HSB); Income Distribution; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Socioeconomic Status (SES)

In this chapter I examine whether and how the relationship between family socioeconomic characteristics and academic achievement has changed during the last fifty years. In particular, I investigate the extent to which the rising income inequality of the last four decades has been paralleled by a similar increase in the income achievement gradient. As the income gap between high- and low-income families has widened, has the achievement gap between children in high- and low-income families also widened?
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Reardon, Sean F. "The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Explanations" In: Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances. G. Duncan and R. Murnane, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
2. Ryan, Rebecca M.
Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.
Duncan, Greg J.
Reardon, Sean F.
Markowitz, Anna J.
Preschool-Age Skills Gaps and the Changing Technology of Parenting
Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Children, Preschool; Children, Well-Being; Home Environment; Mothers, Education; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We aim to identify the home-environment drivers of increasing gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills between poor and more affluent children. These gap increases could arise in multiple ways. The most obvious is that the gap between the quality of home environments available to poor and more affluent children could be growing. This might happen if rapid increases in the incomes of affluent families have led them to spend more on children's early education, lessons, books, computers, etc. in ways that have enriched the home environments of affluent children more rapidly than the home environments of poor children.

We draw on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (1988/1990 n= ~ 2,700 children ages 3-5), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Supplement (1997; n = ~ 800) and National Household Education Surveys covering the period 1991-2007 n = ~ 30,000). In this paper we document over-time class-based gaps in children's home environments in the three different data sets. The measure of the home environment is multifaceted, including measures of parents' time inputs, emotional support, and provision of a physical environment conducive to children's learning and emotional well-being.

Bibliography Citation
Ryan, Rebecca M., Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, Greg J. Duncan, Sean F. Reardon and Anna J. Markowitz. "Preschool-Age Skills Gaps and the Changing Technology of Parenting." Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015.