Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Agrawal, Mohit; Altonji, Joseph G.; Mansfield, Richard K.
• 署名单位: Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/701012
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: S11-S83
• 关键词: neighborhoods; QUALITY; CHOICE; achievement; equilibrium; opportunity; preferences; exposure; CHILDREN; impacts

摘要

We extend Altonji and Mansfield's control function approach to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for a causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower-bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality distribution increases high school graduation and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17, respectively. Treatment effects are heterogeneous across subgroups, primarily due to nonlinearity in the educational attainment model.