The Impact of Childhood Family Background, School Resources, and Curriculum on Black and White Women's Educational Attainments, Labor Market Experience, Occupational Mobility

童年家庭背景、学校资源和课程对黑人和白人妇女教育程度、劳动力市场经验、职业流动性的影响

• 批准号: 9708016
• 负责人: Lori Kletzer
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-01 至 2000-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9708016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impact; Childhood; Family; Background; Resources

This research will examine differences between black and white women in economic status. The poject,while while focused methodologically within economics in general and multivariate statistical techniques, will draw from a number of other disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and education. Several longitudinal data bases will be used to develop anindividual-level approach to questions of educational attainment, occupational status, and earnings. The focus on family background and school inputs will highlight issues of the intergenerational transmission of wealth and poverty. The investigation will permit insights into the following questions: How do secondary school inputs affect educational attainment such as high school graduation, the extent and quality of post-secondary schooling, major selected, occupation, and earnings? How do family background characteristics, such as parental education and income, family size, birth order, and presence of one or two parents affect these outcomes? How do school resources and family background affect measured secondary school academic achievement or cognitive skills? How do college characteristics affect labor market success? How important are college resources per student and the quality of college peers for learning of the type that is rewarded in the labor market? How can the effects of college per se be separated from the effects of pre-college education and ability? What is the role of educational attainment in occupational mobility? How much of occupational convergence between black women and white women is explained by rising educational attainment amongst blacks? What is the role of anti-discrimination legislation and affirmative action? How can these questions about human capital accumulation be related to the special concerns of low-income women, particularly black women? What is the impact on black females of the deteriorating economic status of black men? Black women face both disadvantage and discrimination and their economic status is more precarious than the economic status of white women. This project will provide a basis for a deeper understanding of the factors that explain advances, stagnation and decline in relative economic status for black women. It will also contribute to our understanding of changes in the economic status of white women.

这项研究将考察黑人和白人妇女在经济地位上的差异。该项目虽然侧重于一般经济学和多元统计技术的方法论，但将借鉴许多其他学科，包括社会学、心理学和教育学。几个纵向数据库将用于发展个人层面的方法，以解决教育程度、职业地位和收入问题。对家庭背景和学校投入的关注将突出财富和贫穷的代际传递问题。调查将允许深入了解以下问题：中学教育投入如何影响教育成就，如高中毕业、高等教育的程度和质量、专业选择、职业和收入？家庭背景特征，如父母的教育程度和收入、家庭规模、出生顺序、父母一方或双方的存在如何影响这些结果？学校资源和家庭背景如何影响中学学业成绩或认知技能？大学特点如何影响劳动力市场的成功？每个学生的大学资源和大学同伴的质量对于在劳动力市场上获得回报的学习类型有多重要？如何将大学本身的影响与大学前教育和能力的影响分开呢？受教育程度在职业流动中的作用是什么？黑人女性和白人女性之间的职业趋同在多大程度上可以用黑人受教育程度的提高来解释？反歧视立法和平权行动的作用是什么？这些关于人力资本积累的问题如何与低收入妇女，特别是黑人妇女的特殊关切联系起来？黑人男性经济地位的恶化对黑人女性有什么影响？黑人女性面临着劣势和歧视，她们的经济地位比白人女性更不稳定。这个项目将为更深入地了解黑人妇女相对经济地位的进步、停滞和下降的原因提供基础。这也将有助于我们理解白人妇女经济地位的变化。