Changes in the wage structure, family income, and children's education:

We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is true f...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron 1967- (Author), Pischke, Jörn-Steffen 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. NBER 2000
Series:NBER working paper series 7986
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Summary:We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is true for families in the top quartile of the distribution. Our estimates suggest large effects of family income on enrollments. For example, we find that a 10 percent increase in family income is associated with a 1.4 percent increase in the probability of attending a four-year college.
Physical Description:13, [4] S. 22 cm

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