American Mobility and the Expansion of Public Education
利用20世纪初美国公共教育扩张时期的新代际数据集，发现当时收入流动性高，但学校质量与流动性负相关，因为高收入家庭对学校改善的反应比贫困家庭更积极。
Educational institutions and intergenerational mobility are closely related; access to schools is a major determinant of a child's future success. This article offers new insight into this relationship with a study of mobility at the beginning of the United States' expansion of public schools in the early twentieth century. A new intergenerational data set is used to establish high rates of income mobility at the start of the century and a negative relationship between school quality and mobility. Educational attainment estimates reveal that this was a product of high-income families being more responsive to improving schools than poor families.