A student here is looking for data that will allow her to find educational outcomes for all members of a family, even those who are no longer living within the same household. She wants to test the theory that the highest level of education achieved by each child depends in part on the number of children within the family.
I’ve come up dry: do you know of any data that would allow her to do this study?
She has considered, and rejected, using the NLSY from the United States, since many of the children of the 1979 cohort have not yet completed their education. Would the Panel Study of Income Dynamics let her do this?
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I just wanted to let you know that I did check with our Education Division on this one, just to be sure. They confirmed that the data are not available through them.
Greetings, I work the PSID Help Desk and have read your blog, and would like to add the following information for this researcher:
ReplyDeleteYes we [the PSID] does ask highest level of HEAD [HD] for new HD/s new WF's [WIFES] as the come into the family. And we also ask for ofums [OTHER FAMILY UNIT MEMBERS] ages 16-49 every year what is the highest they have completed.
So we would have to know a bit more regarding their research, but yes we think they would have enough info using our education variables and the birth history/parent id file to perhaps answer the research question at hand.