Inequality of Educational Opportunity? Schools as Mediators of the Intergenerational Transmission of Income

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rothstein, Jesse
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/700888
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: S85-S123
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; mobility

摘要

Intergenerational income transmission varies across commuting zones (CZs). I investigate whether children's educational outcomes help to explain this variation. Differences among CZs in the relationship between parental income and children's human capital explain only one-ninth of the variation in income transmission. A similar share is explained by differences in the return to human capital. One-third reflects earnings differences not mediated by human capital, and 40% reflects differences in marriage patterns. Intergenerational mobility appears to reflect job networks and the structure of local labor and marriage markets more than it does the education system.