How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children’s Educational Attainment?1

By Susan E. Mayer. American Journal of Sociology, 2001

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Income Inequality and Income Segregation1 (2011, background): “…studies differ on the details of the timing and magnitude of the increase because of differences in the measures of income segregation used and the sample of metropolitan areas included (see Jargowsky 1996, 2003; Mayer 2001b; Massey and Fischer 2003; Wheeler and La Jeunesse 2006; Watson 2009).”
Inequality and public good provision: An experimental analysis (2008, background): “1 Examples of subject-specific studies on the effects of inequality include Forbes (2000) on economic growth and investment, Mellor and Milyo (2001,2002) on health, Mayer (2001) on education and Fajnzybler et al. (2002) on crime.”
Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions (2016, background): “Segregation effects caused by specific cohabitation practices lead to groupings of people with a similar socio-economic status (Durlauf 1996; Jencks 2002;Mayer 2001).”