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Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling

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  • Dan Maurice Levy
  • Greg Duncan
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    We assess the impact of stage-specific family childhood income on completed years of schooling using fixed effects techniques to eliminate biases associated with the omission of unmeasured family characteristics. Sibling data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that family income during early childhood has a positive effect on children's educational attainment. The magnitude of the effect suggests that a 2.7-fold increase in parental income when the child is 0-4 years old leads to an increase of about half a year of schooling. We find that income during adolescence has a positive but less robust effect.

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    Paper provided by Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research in its series JCPR Working Papers with number 168.

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    Date of creation: 27 Apr 2000
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    Handle: RePEc:wop:jopovw:168

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    1. Robert Haveman & Barbara Wolfe, 1995. "The Determinants of Children's Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 33(4), pages 1829-1878, December.
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    1. Black, Sandra E. & Devereux, Paul J. & Løken, Katrine V. & Salvanes, Kjell G., 2012. "Care Or Cash? The Effect Of Child Care Subsidies On Student Performance," Working Papers in Economics 09/12, University of Bergen, Department of Economics.
    2. Coelli, Michael B., 2011. "Parental job loss and the education enrollment of youth," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 25-35, January.
    3. Michael B Coelli, 2009. "Parental Job Loss, Income Shocks and the Education Enrolment of Youth," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 1060, The University of Melbourne.
    4. Løken, Katrine Vellesen & Mogstad, Magne & Wiswall, Matthew, 2011. "What Linear Estimators Miss: The E ects of Family Income on Child Outcomes," Working Papers in Economics 02/11, University of Bergen, Department of Economics.
    5. W. Jean Yeung & Miriam R. Linver, 2000. "Mediators of Income Effects on Young Children's Development," JCPR Working Papers 176, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    6. Loris Vergolini & Nadir Zanini, 2012. "How does aid matter? The effect of financial aid on university enrolment decisions," Working Papers 2012/7, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).

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