Jerrim, John;
(2023)
Measuring parental income using administrative data. What is the best proxy available?
Research Papers in Education
10.1080/02671522.2023.2271930.
(In press).
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Abstract
Administrative data are increasingly being used to study inequalities in education. Yet a well-known difficulty with such resources is the limited information they hold. A commonly used proxy for children coming from a low-income background is their eligibility for free school meals, yet this is likely to be of little use in measuring academic achievement amongst middle and high-income groups. This study adds to the literature by showing how eligibility for free school meals – averaged over the time a child has spent at school – is the best available proxy for low income during childhood. In contrast, creating a continuous index combining free school meal eligibility with information on the neighbourhood in which they live represents the best way of comparing educational outcomes across children from low, average and high-income backgrounds.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Measuring parental income using administrative data. What is the best proxy available? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02671522.2023.2271930 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2023.2271930 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Administrative data; proxy measures; income-achievement gaps; permanent income |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181779 |
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