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Title: Environmental Factors in Determining Childhood Success
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Mo, Jennifer |
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Environmental Factors in Determining Childhood Success Honors Thesis (B.A.), Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, 2006 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Northwestern University Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Children, Well-Being; Geographical Variation; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While much of the success a child has can be attributed to family characteristics, great amounts of variation are still left unexplained. This paper attempts to look at different absolute and relative community variables, taken while a child is 3 years of age, and then looks ahead to child test scores a number of years later in order to locate variables which are predictive of testing success or failure. Results show that a number of community variables are highly significant, including both absolute and relative variables. Crime rate, differences in income from the community norm, and racial variables are important predictors, though race has a very counterintuitive result. A few possible reasons for this are explored, though results are inconclusive. Further investigation could shed some light on this result. |
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Mo, Jennifer. "Environmental Factors in Determining Childhood Success." Honors Thesis (B.A.), Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Northwestern University, 2006. |