Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

No 7986, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: I21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-10
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Published as Acemoglu, Daron and J. S. Pischke. "Changes In The Wage Structure, Family Income, And Children's Education," European Economic Review, 2001, v45(4-6,May), 890-904.

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