CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: ECONOMICS

描述：这项研究的目标是提高对 高中辍学决定的决定因素和后果 通识教育完成学业的决定因素和后果 开发(GED)认证。将开发计量经济方法，并 应用于多个大型纵向数据集的动态确定 就学模式与就业选择及其相互关系 在这些选择中。该项目将利用丰富的信息 可从收入动态调查小组(PSID)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 没有被广泛用于这些目的的来源。两者都减少了 形式和结构动态模型的评估将着眼于 理解考试认证的决定因素和后果。 以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将被延长。动态 受教育程度模型将解释按年龄划分的决定 上学的人数将会被估计。退学和重新入学的决定， 包括参加GED考试的决定，将受到调查。这些类型的 考虑的学校教育将扩大到分析非学历专上教育 可供选择的学校。机会工资、家庭资源、 家庭环境因素与社区大学学费成本 解释受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.