THE DETERMINANTS OF CHILDRENS ATTAINMENTS - A REVIEW OF METHODS AND FINDINGS

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Russell Sage Foundation, from a grant by the Assistant Secretary of Planning a nd Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to t he Institute for Research on Poverty, and from the Economics Program o f the National Science Foundation. We are very grateful to Kathryn Wil son for Fer assistance with this paper, especially her significant con tributions to the tables; to Elizabeth Evanson for her editorial work; and to Dawn Duren for her excellent typing. The paper has benefited f rom comments and criticisms of four anonymous referees John Antel, Jer e Behrman, Andrea Beller, Mary Corcoran, Jonathan Crane, Sheldon Danzi ger, Greg J. Duncan, B. J. Kiker, Susan Mayer, Robert Plotnick, and Da vid Ribar.