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Title: Learning "Self-Sufficiency": How High Schools Help Women Avoid Welfare
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Beattie, Irenee Rose |
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Learning "Self-Sufficiency": How High Schools Help Women Avoid Welfare Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Education; High School; Modeling; Poverty; Schooling; Welfare; Women; Women's Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This research fills gaps in education and welfare research by analyzing the longitudinal effect of high school experiences on women's risk of welfare receipt and on the proximate causes of receipt - teen childbearing, dropping out of high school, limited work experience, single motherhood, and adult poverty. I draw from theoretical arguments about the role of schooling in society and empirical work demonstrating the importance of within- and between-school variation in shaping student outcomes. I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (1979-1998) and event history, logistic and OLS regression to determine how high school helps women avoid welfare. Analyzing the effects of curricular tracking, school context, and school resources on first welfare receipt and its proximate causes, I find that curricular tracking and school context indirectly affect welfare receipt through their effects on each of the proximate causes of receipt. Further, I find that women's risks of first welfare receipt is directly diminished by enrollment in college track coursework and by attending high schools with lower concentrations of poor students, net of extensive, time-varying controls for family background, adult poverty, work experience, fertility and other factors. |
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Beattie, Irenee Rose. "Learning "Self-Sufficiency": How High Schools Help Women Avoid Welfare." Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001. |