Arbeitspapier

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S. student cohorts born between 1954 and 2001. Achievement gaps between the top and bottom quartiles of the SES distribution have been large and remarkably constant for a near half century. These unwavering gaps have not been offset by improved achievement levels, which have risen at age 14 but have remained unchanged at age 17 for the past quarter century.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8111

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Publicly Provided Goods: General
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
student achievement
inequality
socio-economic status
United States
NAEP
TIMSS
PISA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hanushek, Eric A.
Peterson, Paul E.
Talpey, Laura M.
Woessmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hanushek, Eric A.
  • Peterson, Paul E.
  • Talpey, Laura M.
  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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