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Title: Contribution of Middle Childhood Contexts to Adolescent Achievement and Behavior
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Magnuson, Katherine A. Duncan, Greg J. Kalil, Ariel |
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Contribution of Middle Childhood Contexts to Adolescent Achievement and Behavior Working Paper, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, June 2003 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University - (formerly Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Characteristics; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Structure; Neighborhood Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Schooling; Temperament Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We address three specific questions. First, how much variation in adolescents' academic achievement and problem behaviors are uniquely explained by the contexts they experience in middle childhood? Second, to the extent that middle childhood contexts matter, which contexts matter the most? And third, are the effects of contexts in middle childhood on early adolescents' outcomes different for boys and girls and for poor and middle class children? Our answers to these questions are based on an analysis of data from a national sample of over 2,000 children followed from birth until adolescence. Family poverty, structure and home environments are measured throughout this time, enabling us to both describe the stability of contexts between early and middle childhood and assess the extent to which middle childhood contexts add to the explanation of adolescent achievement and behavior over and above early environments. |
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Magnuson, Katherine A., Greg J. Duncan and Ariel Kalil. "Contribution of Middle Childhood Contexts to Adolescent Achievement and Behavior." Working Paper, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, June 2003. |