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Title: Education Outcomes and School Poverty and Urbanicity
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1. Lippman, Laura
Burns, Shelley
McArthur, Edith
Smith, Tom
Education Outcomes and School Poverty and Urbanicity
Presented: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, American Statistical Association Winter Conference, Families and Children: Research Findings, Data Needs, and Survey Issues, 1993
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Statistical Association
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Employment; High School and Beyond (HSB); National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Poverty; Rural/Urban Differences; Urbanization/Urban Living

This paper investigates the relationship between school urbanicity and the degree of poverty within schools, and outcomes of students attending those schools. Educational achievement and attainment, employment, and earnings are analyzed using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS), High School and Beyond (HS&B), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Individual level data on these outcomes are comparably grouped across data sets according to the urbanicity of the school and the percent of disadvantaged students in the school. Student outcomes are then compared across categories of urban, suburban, and rural schools with various levels of disadvantagement. We find that the level of concentration of poverty within a school is a stronger predictor of outcomes than urbanicity. Measurement issues within NCES surveys are raised.
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Lippman, Laura, Shelley Burns, Edith McArthur and Tom Smith. "Education Outcomes and School Poverty and Urbanicity." Presented: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, American Statistical Association Winter Conference, Families and Children: Research Findings, Data Needs, and Survey Issues, 1993.