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Title: Parent Income–Based Gaps in Schooling: Cross-Cohort Trends in the NLSYs and the PSID
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Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M. Lee, Kenneth T. H. |
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Parent Income–Based Gaps in Schooling: Cross-Cohort Trends in the NLSYs and the PSID AERA Open published online (April 2016): DOI: 10.1177/2332858416645834. Also: http://ero.sagepub.com/content/2/2/2332858416645834.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Both income inequality and the achievement test score gap between high- and low-income children increased dramatically in the United States beginning in the 1970s. Recent work by Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, and Turner (2014) suggests that, unlike the test score gap, the gap in college enrollment is essentially constant. This article takes a longer historical view and investigates trends in income-based gaps in a number of schooling attainment measures using data from two cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) as well as 31 birth cohorts from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Findings support Chetty and colleagues' conclusion of little change in college enrollment for their cohorts but show significant increases in college enrollment gaps between Chetty and colleagues' and prior cohorts in both the PSID and the NLSY. We further find strong evidence of growing gaps in college completion. In contrast, gaps in high school graduation have fallen, which provide at least one optimistic sign of catching up among low-income individuals. The net result of these trends is to produce a modestly increasing gap in completed schooling between children growing up in low- and high-income families. |
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Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M. and Kenneth T. H. Lee. "Parent Income–Based Gaps in Schooling: Cross-Cohort Trends in the NLSYs and the PSID." AERA Open published online (April 2016): DOI: 10.1177/2332858416645834.
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