Methodologist as Arbitrator: Five Models for Black-White Differences in the Casual Effect of Expectations on Attainment  

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Morgan, Stephen L.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Sociological Methods and Research vol. 33 no. 01 (Aug. 2004), page 3.
Topik: educational; expectations; edecational achievement; causal effects; Black-Wite differences; multimodel research

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whwn progress in applied research slows because opposing coalitions of investigators privilage their favored models, methodologists can contribute by addressing a tractable unresolved question that is relevant to all competing positions. In this article, the literature on educational attainment is addressed, broadly by focusing o alternative position on the need to model students' own beliefsand more narrowly by attempting to answer a classic question that emerged in debates over the power of status attainment approaches: why is the relationship between educational expectations and subsequent educational attainment weaker for blacks than for whites? five complementary models of the casual effect of expectations on attainment are offered: a traditional part model, an average effects instrumental variabel model, a counterfactual analysis of bounds,a rational expectations model, and a panel data model of updates expectations.

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