Parents’ income and children’s school drop-out at 16 in England and Wales: evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

This paper investigates the effect of parents’ income on children’s drop-out from school at age 16 using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). Unlike previous papers using the same data set, we use a continuous measure of income derived from the grouped income variable available in the BCS70, we employ instrumental variable techniques to address the issue of endogeneity of family income and take account of the potential endogeneity of income response with respect to a child’s education by jointly modelling the school drop-out decision and response to the family income question. Our estimates show the exogeneity of response to the income question with a child’s education and are in line with the previous literature finding a statistically significant small negative effect of family income on school drop-out at 16. On the contrary, other non-pecuniary parental effects, such as parental education and social class, turn out to be both significant and of a sizeable magnitude. Early versions of this paper benefited from presentations at the University of Warwick, the ZEW Summer Workshop 2002 on Human Capital, the European Society for Population Economics 2002 Conference and the European Economic Association 2002 Conference and comments by Martin Andrews, Lorenzo Cappellari, Charlotte Lauer, Derek Leslie, Jeremy Smith, Mark Stewart, and two anonymous referees. The BCS70 data were kindly provided by, and used with permission of, the UK Data Archive (UKDA, University of Essex). Funding from the ESRC is gratefully acknowledged. The usual disclaimer applies.     

浅谈当代大学生礼仪教育问题

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美国高等教育考察与思考

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Distance education and international social work education

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高等教育大众化背景下体育教育专业学生就业问题及发展对策研究

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高校网络德育的实效性及实践探索

高校网络德育在理论上有探索但没有完成，在实践上有尝试但没有成熟，其实效性也就更难以保证。高校网络德育的要件与一般意义的德育基本一致，而高校网络德育主体与客体的“分离性”与“间接性”决定了其实效性要件具有相对特殊性。从其特殊性出发，学校采取可行的措施，教师积极参与，主动介入并引导学生网络生活，适当开展网络德育活动，是提高网络德育实效性的一条比较可行的途径。     

从投资风险角度分析我国高等教育投资问题及对策

我国高等教育正处于全面改革和发展阶段,在此过程中出现了需求的扩大与资金短缺的矛盾,这成为高等教育进一步发展的制约因素。文章对这一矛盾进行了分析,并从教育投资风险的角度探讨了原因,最后提出一些针对性的措施。     

Childhood roots of financial literacy

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