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Title: The Causal Effect of Family Income on College Entry and College Completion: A Feasible Semiparametric Approach for Isolating the Margin
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1. Morgan, Stephen L.
The Causal Effect of Family Income on College Entry and College Completion: A Feasible Semiparametric Approach for Isolating the Margin
Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2002.
Also: http://paa2002.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.asp?submissionId=60927
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): College Dropouts; College Education; College Enrollment; Family Income

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Through an analysis of NLSY data, this paper examines whether or not family income shortfalls have long-run deprivation effects and/or short-run credit constraint effects on college entry and college completion patterns.

Based on the logic of propensity score analysis, the favorite status attainment variable of educational expectations is used to develop a latent variable model of the propensity to enter and complete college. Using this estimated single dimension as a ranking of individuals, the conditional association between family income and educational transition rates is then analyzed for different strata of that population, some of which can be narrowly represented as students on the margin of college entry. This approach enables an inside-out approach to modeling the causal effect for those students most likely to be subject to the influence of short-run fluctuations in available credit.

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Morgan, Stephen L. "The Causal Effect of Family Income on College Entry and College Completion: A Feasible Semiparametric Approach for Isolating the Margin." Presented: Atlanta, GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2002.