Inequality of educational opportunity? Schools as mediators of the intergenerational transmission of income.

Autor/in	Rothstein, Jesse
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Inequality of educational opportunity? Schools as mediators of the intergenerational transmission of income. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ungleichheit der Bildungschancen? Schulen als Mediatoren der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität.
Quelle	Cambrige, Mass. (2018), 69 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 24537
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w24537
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Soziale Ungleichheit; Generation; Bildungsertrag; Schule; Wohnort; Mobilität; Qualität; Regionaler Vergleich; Standortfaktor; USA
Abstract	"Chetty et al. (2014b) show that children from low-income families achieve higher adult incomes, relative to those from higher income families, in some commuting zones (CZs) than in others. I investigate whether children's educational outcomes help to explain the between-CZ differences. I find little evidence that the quality of schools is a key mechanism driving variation in intergenerational mobility. While CZs with stronger intergenerational income transmission have somewhat stronger transmission of parental income to children's educational attainment and achievement, on average, neither can explain a large share of the between-CZ variation. Marriage patterns explain two-fifths of the variation in income transmission, human capital accumulation and returns to human capital each explain only one-ninth, and the remainder of the variation (about one-third) reflects differences in earnings between children from high- and low-income families that are not mediated by human capital. This points to job networks and the structure of local labor and marriage markets, rather than the education system, as likely factors influencing intergenerational economic mobility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/4