RiverDad
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I thought you might care, since your second source clearly tracks disparate performance "by the time they reach adulthood", which is heavily influenced by parenting. Heckman casts doubt on the idea that poor schools and bad neighborhoods account for the disparity, but he doesn't seem to account for family cohesiveness and parenting.
As I noted, these are all interesting topics, but they have no bearing on the issue in this thread. Also, while we are on this topic, Heckman in not alone in noting that poor schools and bad neighborhoods are not the culprits responsible for life-outcome disparity, there's quite a bit of research on those questions.
So, let's play with this a little bit before we abandon it - what if you're correct and the cause of the disparity can be tracked down to parenting. Now how do you propose we use that information to address the issue of unemployment disparity? Is parenting the responsibility of some employer 20+ years into the child's future?