Hample, Kelsey

Seeborg, Faculty Advisor, Michael

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2010, 21st Annual JWP ConferenceApr 10th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Effects of Parental Education on the Earningsof Children in Native and Immigrant FamiliesKelsey HampleIllinois Wesleyan UniversityMichael Seeborg, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcPart of the Economics CommonsThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Kelsey Hample and Michael Seeborg, Faculty Advisor, "The Effects of Parental Education on the Earnings of Children inNative and Immigrant Families" (April 10, 2010). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 1.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2010/oralpres6/1THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE - APRIL 2010 Oral Presentation 06.1 THE EFFECTS OF PARENTAL EDUCATION ON THE EARNINGS OF CHILDREN IN NATIVE AND IMMIGRANT FAMILIES Kelsey Hample and Michael Seeborg* Economics Department, Illinois Wesleyan University While immigrants in the United States tend to earn less than comparable natives, their children tend to earn more. The purpose of this study is to determine how differences in intergenerational transfer of human capital between immigrant families and native families affect different earning outcomes for respondents of each group. Specifically, this study analyzes how parents' education influences their children's earnings. Of particular interest is how parents' education indirectly affects their children's earnings by first influencing their educational attainment. Data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth allows background variables within a family from 1979 to be related to respondent earnings in 2006. The analysis shows that while parental education is a strong predictor of respondent education and earnings in the native population, it is weaker for second generation immigrants' earnings. However, the results support that immigrant parents have a relatively larger influence on their children's educational attainment, thereby indirectly influencing their earnings. 

The Effects of Parental Education on the Earnings of Children in Native and Immigrant Families

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