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Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age

Sean F. Reardon
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (2) 40-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.03
Sean F. Reardon
aEndowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
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vol. 5 no. 2 40-68
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.03

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2377-8253
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  • Published online April 11, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Reardon, Sean F. 2019. “Educational Opportunity in Early and Middle Childhood: Using Full Population Administrative Data to Study Variation by Place and Age.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(2): 40–68. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.03. The research described here was supported by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (R305D110018), the Spencer Foundation (Award #201500058), the William T. Grant Foundation (Award #186173), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Overdeck Family Foundation. The paper would not have been possible without the assistance of Ross Santy, Michael Hawes, Marilyn Seastrom, and Jennifer Davies, who facilitated access to the EDFacts data. This paper benefited substantially from ongoing collaboration with Andrew Ho, Erin Fahle, and Ben Shear and from the research assistance of Joseph Van Matre and Richard DiSalvo. Some of the data used in this paper were provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent views of NCES, the Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, or the Overdeck Family Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Sean F. Reardon at sean.reardon@stanford.edu, 520 CERAS Building #526, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. aEndowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
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    Sean F. Reardon, (sean.reardon{at}stanford.edu)
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