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Source: Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University
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Ludwig, Jens Otto |
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Do Youths in Urban Poverty Neighborhoods Underestimate the Returns to Education? Working Paper, Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University, Washington DC, January 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University Keyword(s): Black Youth; Educational Returns; Intelligence Tests; Job Knowledge; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Poverty; Racial Differences; Role Models; Rural/Urban Differences; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Urbanization/Urban Living Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper provides an empirical examination of W.J. Wilson's hypothesis that youths residing in concentrated urban poverty neighborhoods misperceive the returns to education due, in part, to a paucity of middle class role models within these communities. Three primary empirical questions are addressed using the NLSY: (1) Do youths in urban poverty communities, defined here as urban ZIP Code areas with 1980 poverty rates above 30 percent, have less information about the labor market than youths from other areas? Evidence is found for such information differences using a number of labor market information measures available with the NLSY. (2) Does residence within a concentrated urban poverty neighborhood per se depress labor market information, or are information differences due primarily to characteristics suck as race and socioeconomic status? Analysis of the NLSY suggests that urban poverty areas appear to matter primarily for African-American males. (3) Does labor market information influence educational outcomes? Both naive and two-stage estimation procedures suggest that the information which youths have about the labor market appear to influence high school graduation and years of school completed, even after controlling for other individual, family, neighborhood and school characteristics. |
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Ludwig, Jens Otto. "Do Youths in Urban Poverty Neighborhoods Underestimate the Returns to Education?" Working Paper, Graduate Public Policy Program, Georgetown University, Washington DC, January 1995. |