Housing costs are usually the largest item in a household’s budget and can determine a family’s financial stability.

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This paper summarizes evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement. Life cycle skill formation is a dynamic process in which early inputs strongly affect t...

Although there is intense policy interest in improving educational outcomes around the world, there is much greater uncertainty about how to accomplish this. The primary governmental decisions often r...

Abstract. We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by s

Violence is a key mechanism in the reproduction of community disadvantage. The existing evidence indicates that violence in a community impacts the...