Ken Shores

My project concerns the role that education plays in narrowing income inequality in the United States. If, as I assume, education is seen as a popular way to narrow income inequality, I wish to know what explains this emphasis. One way of testing this is to see if people care more about narrowing income inequality through education than they do about income inequality itself. If they do, this would imply that education does something else that people value. I hypothesize that individuals regard the distribution of skills as distinctly valuable, and that they are willing to sacrifice some income in order to narrow the skills distribution.