“…If rising inequality creates class gaps in parental anxiety about their children's future socioeconomic status, this could lead to increases in the class gap in parental investments in children. 1 Such anxieties and preferences could be magnified by playing out a time when residential segregation by income has been sharply increasing (Reardon and Bischoff, 2011), particularly among families with children (Owens, 2016) and with consequences for the income segregation of schools 1 Additionally, high-SES parents could increase their investments in children more strongly in reaction to rising income inequality than lower-SES parents because their investments of time and money in children are more effective (Guryan et al 2008;Hsin, 2009;Villena-Roldan and Rios-Aguillar, 2012) or because high-SES parents may be more informed about the benefits of such investment (Kalil et al, 2012). and districts (Owens, Reardon, and Jencks, 2016).…”