Changes in Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Daron Acemoglu and
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
JCPR Working Papers from Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
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 on 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 related to a 1.4 percent increase in the probability of attending a four-year college.
Date: 2000-10-11
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