The dynamics of educational attainment for black, Hispanic, and white males
The dynamics of educational attainment for black, Hispanic, and white males
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DOI：
10.1086/321014
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Heckman, JJ
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作者：
Cameron, SV;Heckman, JJ
本文通过建立一个受教育程度的动态模型，探讨了大学入学中种族和民族差异的来源。父母在儿童青少年时期的收入是这种差异的一个强有力的预测因素。这被广泛解释为意味着家庭在上大学期间面临的信贷限制很重要。使用NLSY的数据，我们发现，这是长期的因素与父母的背景和家庭环境，而不是信贷约束面临的未来的学生在上大学的几年，占大部分的种族-民族的大学差异。旨在改善这些长期的家庭和环境因素的政策更有可能成功地消除大学入学率的差异，而不是短期的学费减免和家庭收入补贴政策，针对有大学适龄儿童的家庭。
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of racial and ethnic disparity in college attendance. Parental income in the child's adolescent years is a strong predictor of this disparity. This is widely interpreted to mean that credit constraints facing families during the college-going years are important. Using NLSY data, we find that it is the long-run factors associated with parental background and family environment, and not credit constraints facing prospective students in the college-going years, that account for most of the racial-ethnic college-going differential. Policies aimed at improving these long-term family and environmental factors are more likely to be successful in eliminating college attendance differentials than short-term tuition reduction and family income supplement policies aimed at families with college age children.