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Aratani, Yumiko |
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Growing Up in the Projects: Educational Aspiration and Achievements of Children in Public Housing Presented: Neuchatel, Switzerland, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, May 2004. Also: http://www.sidos.ch/method/RC28/abstracts/Yumiko%20Aratani.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: SIDOS - Swiss Information and Data Archive Service for the Social Sciences Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Demography; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Gender Differences; Hispanics; Life Course; Parents, Single; Public Housing; Racial Differences; Residence; Socioeconomic Factors; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This chapter investigates the impact of housing on educational stratification; in particular, how public housing residence influences educational aspirations and achievements of children who spend their adolescence in such housing....The current study only uses the samples, who were under age 18 and lived with parents in 1979....First, it has rich information on attitudes, intelligence tests, and the educational attainment of youth over their life course. Secondly, a separate mail survey was sent to schools where NLSY79 respondents attended for collecting information on their academic transcript during 1980-1983. Third, it has a set of supplement samples to oversample blacks, Hispanics, economically disadvantaged non-black, non-Hispanics, which is suitable for both a cohort analysis and separate analysis by race. Finally, my NLSY79 sample contains a much larger case number of public housing residents in 1978-1979 (N=399).5 The survey also separately asks whether respondents and their family have lived in public housing or received government rent subsidy between 1979 and 1984; which allows me to focus on respondents that lived in public housing that is owned by the housing authority separating from those who lived in private housing through rent subsidy. This study only looks at the effect of public housing but not housing subsidy (section 8) because the study anchors on a research hypothesis that public housing is a measurement of residential community which share common socioeconomic conditions. Further, it intends to test the effect of geographical concentration of low-income families and the degree of concentration, and this is not very clear for those who receive housing subsidy but lived in privately owned building. |
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Aratani, Yumiko. "Growing Up in the Projects: Educational Aspiration and Achievements of Children in Public Housing." Presented: Neuchatel, Switzerland, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, May 2004. |