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Title: Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment
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Teachman, Jay D. Paasch, Kathleen M. Day, Randal D. Carver, Karen P. |
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Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment In: Consequences of Growing Up Poor. G.J. Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 382-418 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Keyword(s): Child Health; Children, Poverty; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Fertility; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Diploma; Household Composition; Intelligence; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors Chapter 13. The immediate effects of poverty on the living conditions, nutrition and physical and emotional health of children are relatively well documented (Mare 1982; McLeod and Shanahan 1993; McLoyd 1990; Miller and Korenman 1994a, I994b; Parker, Greer, and Zuckerman 1988). Less evidence is available on the longer-term consequences of poverty for children. This chapter focuses on the potential link between the experience of poverty in adolescence and subsequent educational achievement. A variety of evidence linking events and circumstances in childhood to outcomes in later life suggests that a childhood lived in poverty may have lasting effects. A substantial body of literature indicates the importance of parental socioeconomic and household characteristics for their offspring's eventual level of education, occupational status, and income (Blau and Duncan 1967; Corcoran et al. 1992; Duncan, Featherman, and Duncan 1972; Featherman and Hauser 1978: Hauser and Daymont 1977; Hauser and Featherman 1977; Jencks et al. 1972, 1979; Jencks, Crouse, and Meuser 1983; Sewell and Hauser 1975; Sewell, Hauser, and Wolfe 1980). We build on this literature by examining the link between poverty experienced during adolescence and several educational outcomes, including high school completion, college attendance, and years of schooling attained. We take a longitudinal perspective, distinguishing between short-term and longer term poverty. We also consider various measures of poverty as well as the impact of welfare receipt. Finally, we implement controls for a wide range of potentially confounding influences such as race, sex, parental education, family structure and intellectual ability (IQ). |
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Teachman, Jay D., Kathleen M. Paasch, Randal D. Day and Karen P. Carver. "Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment" In: Consequences of Growing Up Poor. G.J. Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 382-418
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