Round-up: Ethnic nepotism in the PhD pipeline

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

Divorce, Family Arrangements, and Children's Adult Outcomes. Andrew Johnston and colleagues examine the causal effect of divorce on children’s later outcomes. Comparing siblings with different lengths of exposure to the same divorce, they find that divorce reduces children’s later earnings, while increasing incarceration and teen births. Falls in household income, neighbourhood quality and parental proximity can explain about half the effect.

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900. Zachary Bleemer and Sarah Quincy investigate trends in the college wage premium since 1900. They find that the premium received by low-income Americans who attend college has halved since 1960. Low-income students have been increasingly concentrated in community and for-profit colleges. Meanwhile, high-income students have been shifting into lucrative majors like computer science.