Equal opportunity for all? Parental economic resources and children's educational attainment

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Food insecurity and disability: Do economic resources matter? (2010, background): “Our measures of household assets—net worth, liquid assets, and home ownership—allow us to examine effects of various types of assets (Conley, 2001; Nam & Huang, 2009 ).”
Do parental assets matter for children's educational attainment?: Evidence from mediation tests (2011, background): “…to the roles of parental assets in children’s educational attainment (Caner & Wolff, 2004; Cha, Weagley, & Reynolds, 2005; Conley, 2001; Morgan & Kim, 2006; Nam & Huang, 2009; Oliver & Shapiro, 1997; Sherraden, 1991; Williams Shanks, Kim, Loke, & Destin, 2010; Zhan & Sherraden, 2003, 2009).”
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment (2011, background): “L O U I S 4 Unsecured debt, which is usually incurred when the current consumption of a family exceeds current available income, could have dual effects on financing children’s education (Gruber, 2001; Nam & Huang, 2009).”
Taking stock of ten years of research on the relationship between assets and children's educational outcomes: Implications for theory, policy and intervention (2011, background): “Nam & Huang (2009) Net worth; Categorical net worth: negative (household liquid assets are less than unsecured debt); modest ($1 - $10,00); high (more than $10,000); Liquid assets Methods: Logistic regression; Multiple regression; Data Set: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Longitudinal:…”