Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting
利用1910年儿童样本匹配1940年普查数据，研究家庭背景和学校质量对成年教育成果的影响，发现家庭财富可解释26.23%的种族教育差距。
We investigate the empirical relationship between educational outcomes observed in adulthood and family background and school quality characteristics, with a particular focus on racial differences. The results shed light on determinants of racial differences in educational attainment, during a period in American history for which little is known about these determinants. Using a sample of children in 1910 matched to their responses to the 1940 census as adults, links family background with student outcomes. We supplement these with household wealth and district-level measures of school quality from administrative records. Preliminary estimates suggest that mean differences in childhood household head's wealth alone can account for as much as 26.23 percent of the racial disparity in years of schooling, and family background characteristics all together can account for 45.55 percent of the racial differential.