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Author: Attewell, Paul
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1. Attewell, Paul
Lavin, David E.
Domina, Thurston
Levey, Tania Gabrielle
Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Academic Development; Children, Poverty; City University of New York (CUNY) Longitudinal Survey 1970-1972; Family Structure; Grandparents; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Social; Mothers, Education; Parental Influences; Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Propensity Scores; Racial Differences; School Progress; Schooling, Post-secondary

See in particular: Chapter 4: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage: Maternal Education and Children's Success and Chapter 5. How College Changes a Mother’s Parenting and Affects Her Children’s Educational Outcomes
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Attewell, Paul, David E. Lavin, Thurston Domina and Tania Gabrielle Levey. Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.