Schools, Parents and Outcomes in Adolescence and Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的目标是研究学校属性和养育如何在美国人力资本发展过程中共同发挥作用。研究活动的重点将是测试两个广泛的假设。首先，学校的积极属性减少了个人和家庭风险因素对学业成就和成人经济成功的负面影响。第二，父母参与子女的教育和学校质量对儿童的结果有共同和互动的影响。拟议项目的数据来自1988年全国教育纵向调查（NELS：88），NELS：88的重点对象是1988年入学的八年级儿童的全国代表性样本，他们被跟踪了12年。从多个信息提供者（家长、教师、学校管理人员）收集的广泛信息可用于每个主题。特别是，有一个变量确定了每个科目在研究期间（1988 - 2000年）就读的每所学校。将采用的统计方法包括随机效应模型。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed project is to examine how school attributes and parenting work together in the process of human capital development in the United States. The focus of the research activities will be testing 2 broad hypotheses. The first is that positive attributes of schools reduce the negative effect of individual and family risk factors on achievement while in school and adult economic success. The second is that there are joint and interactive effects of parental involvement in the children's schooling and school quality on outcomes for children. The data for the proposed project are from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 (NELS: 88).The focal subjects of NELS: 88 are a national representative sample of children enrolled in the 8th grade in 1988 who have been followed over a period of twelve years. Extensive information, collected from multiple informants (parents, teachers, school administrators), is available for each subject. In particular, there is a variable that identifies every school each subject attended during the study period (1988-2000). The statistical methods that will be employed include random effects models.