Research Question and Hypothesis

In response to Joei's February 3rd post, I believe that we should move forward with those two questions.

The first question should control for the fact that a person from a wealthy family may not choose their program due to their family wealth, but due to their parents paying for their education.

Question 2 I might word a bit differently. This is because no matter what, your parents wealth has influence on the subjects education choice and thus your parents have influence on that decision. So I suppose it is redundant to ask that, since that is what we are trying to measure anyway. Essentially we are trying to measure the influence that a wealthy upbringing has on someone's educational choices, so parental "influence" goes hand in hand with that.

Perhaps the better question to ask would be "How heavily did your parents pressure you to pursue your degree path?" This would better measure the pressure that the child of a doctor may feel. That child may be heavily pressured to become a doctor as well. If we can capture parental pressure, which I believe is what Joei was trying to do, then we can control for it.