Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting

Mohit Agrawal, Joseph Altonji and Richard Mansfield

Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, vol. 37, issue S1, S11 - S83

Abstract: We extend Altonji and Mansfield’s control function approach to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for a causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower-bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality distribution increases high school graduation and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17, respectively. Treatment effects are heterogeneous across subgroups, primarily due to nonlinearity in the educational attainment model.

Date: 2019
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Working Paper: Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting (2018)
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