Trends in Educational Access and Achievement

The Education Research Group will initially focus on two research agendas. The first involves monitoring trend in the effects of poverty and family background on academic achievement, and the second involves decomposing the total effects of background into a component pertaining to effects on performance ("primary effects") and a component pertaining to effects on choices ("secondary effects"). We're collaborating with Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis to hold a conference on rising socioeconomic gaps in educational achievement (go to the conference website).