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Author: Whitaker, Stephan D.
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Whitaker, Stephan D. |
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Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Educational Mobility Education Economics published online (20 April 2022): DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2022.2061427. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09645292.2022.2061427 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Industrial Classification; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY), this article examines the influence of a region's industrial composition on the educational attainment of children raised by parents who do not have college degrees. The NLSY's geo-coded panel allows for precise measurements of the local industries that shaped the parents' employment opportunities and the labor market that the children directly observed. For cohorts finishing school in the 1990s and early 2000s, concentrations of manufacturing are positively associated with both high school and college attainment. Concentrations of college-degree-intensive industries are positively associated with college attainment. I investigate several potential mechanisms that could relate the industrial composition to educational attainment, including returns to education, opportunity costs, parental inputs, community resources, and information. |
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Whitaker, Stephan D. "Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Educational Mobility." Education Economics published online (20 April 2022): DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2022.2061427.
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Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Mobility Working Paper 15-33, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, December 2015. Also: https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/working-papers/2015-working-papers/wp-1533-industrial-composition-and-intergenerational-mobility.aspx Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97 Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Keyword(s): College Degree; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Educational Attainment; Geocoded Data; Industrial Classification; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Labor Market Demographics; Mobility, Occupational; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. For five decades, the share of adults employed in college-degree-intensive industries, such as health care and education, has been rising. Industries that provided employment for workers without degrees, especially manufacturing, have been reducing their payrolls. This economic transition could impact the probability of children obtaining higher levels of education than their parents achieved. In this analysis, measures of the local industrial composition from the Current Population Survey are merged with the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth using the confidential geo-coded records. Living in a labor market with a higher share of adults employed in degree-intensive industries is positively associated with obtaining a college degree among youth whose parents do not have a degree. An additional standard deviation difference in the share of employment in degree-intensive industries corresponds to a 0.02 increase in the probability of ascending to being a college graduate, from a mean of 0.23. For cohorts born in the 1960s, living in a manufacturing-intensive region was negatively correlated with college attainment, but the relationship becomes positive among more recent cohorts. Alternate specifications introduce measures of several factors that could relate the industrial composition to educational attainment, including returns to education (wage premiums), opportunity costs (youth employment), parental inputs (family structure, income), community resources (per capita income), information (regional education levels, post-secondary student populations), and networks (parent's employment). |
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Whitaker, Stephan D. "Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Mobility." Working Paper 15-33, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, December 2015. |