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Title: SES-Based Effect Modification and Intergenerational Educational Stratification
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Fiel, Jeremy E. |
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SES-Based Effect Modification and Intergenerational Educational Stratification Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Academic Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Attainment; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Education; Parental Influences; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study claims that an important aspect of intergenerational educational stratification is the way socioeconomic background modifies the effects of important determinants of attainment. With longitudinal data on recent cohorts of children, I use semiparametric decomposition methods to show that differential returns to children's skills and circumstances, beyond disparities in these attributes, are important contributors to intergenerational educational inequality. This is particularly consequential for bachelor's degree attainment, as the weaker returns to the attributes of low-SES than high-SES youth exacerbate inequality and may stifle efforts to promote upward mobility. The findings also show that problematic parametric assumptions in typical linear models obscure this modification. |
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Fiel, Jeremy E. "SES-Based Effect Modification and Intergenerational Educational Stratification." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |