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Title: The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
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Belley, Philippe Lochner, Lance John |
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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement Journal of Human Capital 1,1 (December 2007): 37-89. Also: http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/524674 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Family Income; School Completion We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to estimate the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment in the early 1980s and early 2000s. The effects of family income on college attendance increase substantially over this period. Cognitive ability strongly affects schooling outcomes in both periods. We develop an educational choice model that incorporates both borrowing constraints and a "consumption value" of schooling. The model cannot explain the rising effects of family income on college attendance in response to rising costs and returns to college without appealing to borrowing constraints. |
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Belley, Philippe and Lance John Lochner. "The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement." Journal of Human Capital 1,1 (December 2007): 37-89.
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