CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: ECONOMICS, PROJECT 5 SUPPLEMENT

描述：本研究的目标是提高对 高中辍学决定的决定因素和后果， 通过普通教育完成学业的决定因素和后果 发展（GED）认证。 将开发计量经济学方法， 应用于几个大规模的纵向数据集，以确定动态 学校教育和就业选择的模式， 在这些选择中。 该项目将利用丰富的信息 从收入动态小组调查（PSID）中获得，NLS匹配 亲子样本，全国青年纵向调查（NLSY），以及 国家教育纵向调查（NELS）数据，以及其他 这些资源尚未被广泛用于这些目的。 都减少 形式和结构动力学模型将着眼于 了解考试认证的决定因素和后果。 先前关于学校教育的研究，侧重于解释学校教育的年限 已完成或特定的教育过渡期将延长。 动态 教育程度的模型，将解释年龄的决定， 学校将进行评估。 辍学和重新入学的决定， 包括参加GED考试的决定都将受到调查。 的类型 所考虑的教育将扩大到分析非学术性的专上教育 学校教育的替代方案。 机会工资，家庭资源， 家庭环境因素和社区大学学费 解释教育程度和考试认证的动态， 将对所有主要人口群体进行评估。

DESCRIPTION: The goal of this research is to improve understanding of the determinants and consequences of the high school dropout decision and the determinants and consequences of school completion via General Education Development (GED) certification. Econometric methods will be developed and applied to several large-scale longitudinal data sets to determine dynamic patterns of schooling and employment choices, and the interrelationships among these choices. The project will exploit the wealth of information available from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID), the NLS matched parent-child samples, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), and the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) data, as well as other sources that have not been widely used for these purposes. Both reduced form and structural dynamic models will be estimated with an eye toward understanding the determinants and consequences of exam certification. Previous research on schooling that focuses on explaining years of schooling completed or specific educational transitions will be extend. Dynamic models of schooling attainment that will explain age-by-age decisions to attend school will be estimated. School drop out and re-entry decisions, including the decision to take the GED, will be investigated. The types of schooling considered will be broaden to analyze non-academic post-secondary schooling alternatives. The roles of opportunity wages, family resources, family environment factors, and community college tuition costs in explaining the dynamics of schooling attainment and exam certification for all major demographic groups will be assessed.