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Title: The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males
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Cameron, Stephen V. Heckman, James J. |
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males Journal of Political Economy 109,3 (June 2001): 455-499. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/321014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): College Education; College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; Family Background and Culture; Family Environment; Hispanics; Income; Parental Influences; Racial Differences; Tuition This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of racial and ethnic disparity in college attendance. Parental income in the child's adolescent years is a strong predictor of this disparity. This is widely interpreted to mean that credit constraints facing families during the college-going years are important. Using NLSY data, we find that it is the long-run factors associated with parental background and family environment, and not credit constraints facing prospective students in the college-going years, that account for most of the racial-ethnic college-going differential. Policies aimed at improving these long-term family and environmental factors are more likely to be successful in eliminating college attendance differentials than short-term tuition reduction and family income supplement policies aimed at families with college age children. |
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Cameron, Stephen V. and James J. Heckman. "The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males ." Journal of Political Economy 109,3 (June 2001): 455-499.
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