Economic Factors that Influence Educational Performance in Rural Schools
利用阿巴拉契亚地区700多名青少年的调查数据，分析农村学生对教育的重视程度如何受迁移意愿和本地就业机会感知的影响，发现不愿迁移且对本地就业持悲观态度的学生教育态度更消极、成绩更差。
Abstract This paper examines the value that young people in rural areas place on education. It employs survey data of over 700 youths in four central Appalachian school districts, OLS regression techniques, and an ordered probit model in a human capital framework. Students who are less willing to move and who have less positive perceptions of local employment opportunities will have less positive attitudes toward education and will perform more poorly in school. Those who are more willing to move place a higher value on education and perceive education as a means of leaving the rural community.