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題名 New Evidence on the Link Between Housing Environment and Children`s Educational Attainments
作者 Wu,Wen-Chieh; Lien,Hsien-Ming; Lin,Chu-Chia
貢獻者 政大財政系
關鍵詞 quantity–quality trade-off;housing;educational attainment
日期 2008-09
上傳時間 26-Aug-2013 16:10:11 (UTC+8)
摘要 There is an extensive literature that posits the hypothesis that a better housing environment enhances a child’s educational attainments. However, there is little causal evidence demonstrating the presence of this effect. Using the census files covering the entire population of Taiwan, we examine the effect of housing environment on children’s educational attainments. Because the Taiwan census data contain unique address information for every household, we are able to control for unobserved family heterogeneity by comparing a child with his or her peers of the same age cohort in the same neighborhood. After controlling for neighborhood using tens of thousands of area dummies, the chance of high school enrollment for teens (ages 16 and 17) and college enrollment for young adults (ages 19 and 20) is found to be positively correlated with increases in floor space, increases in residential stability, and ownership status, but negatively correlated with increases in building age. In addition, we found that the effect of a child’s private space on the chance of school enrollment is nonlinear and different across age and gender. The results are robust even when we account for the potential endogeneity between sibship size and educational outcome using the instrumental variable method.
關聯 Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 408-421
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2008.03.002
dc.contributor 政大財政系en_US
dc.creator (作者) Wu,Wen-Chieh; Lien,Hsien-Ming; Lin,Chu-Chiaen_US
dc.date (日期) 2008-09en_US
dc.date.accessioned 26-Aug-2013 16:10:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 26-Aug-2013 16:10:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 26-Aug-2013 16:10:11 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/59129-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) There is an extensive literature that posits the hypothesis that a better housing environment enhances a child’s educational attainments. However, there is little causal evidence demonstrating the presence of this effect. Using the census files covering the entire population of Taiwan, we examine the effect of housing environment on children’s educational attainments. Because the Taiwan census data contain unique address information for every household, we are able to control for unobserved family heterogeneity by comparing a child with his or her peers of the same age cohort in the same neighborhood. After controlling for neighborhood using tens of thousands of area dummies, the chance of high school enrollment for teens (ages 16 and 17) and college enrollment for young adults (ages 19 and 20) is found to be positively correlated with increases in floor space, increases in residential stability, and ownership status, but negatively correlated with increases in building age. In addition, we found that the effect of a child’s private space on the chance of school enrollment is nonlinear and different across age and gender. The results are robust even when we account for the potential endogeneity between sibship size and educational outcome using the instrumental variable method.en_US
dc.language.iso en_US-
dc.relation (關聯) Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 408-421en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) quantity–quality trade-off;housing;educational attainmenten_US
dc.title (題名) New Evidence on the Link Between Housing Environment and Children`s Educational Attainmentsen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.jue.2008.03.002en_US
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2008.03.002en_US