The impact of parental income on early schooling transitions - A re-examination using data over three generations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Maurin, E
• 署名单位: Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00131-1
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 301-332
• 关键词: parental income; performance at school; elementary school; binary choice; semi-parametric method; endogenous regressor

摘要

This paper applies new semi-parametric techniques to estimate the effects of parental income on the probability of being held back in elementary school in France. We use information on grandparents' past socioeconomic status and parents' education level to separate the parental income effects from the effects of the unmeasured determinants of children's performance at school that are correlated with parental income. When considering the probability of being held back in elementary school, we find that the effects of parental poverty are much larger than the effects of a child's sex or age (age within his/her class) or of the parents' education level. Our findings suggest that policy decisions that increase income transfers to relatively poor families have a potentially very large impact on children's early performance at school. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.