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Title: The Timing of Childhood Poverty, Contextual Risk and Educational Outcomes in Early Adulthood
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Mykyta, Laryssa |
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The Timing of Childhood Poverty, Contextual Risk and Educational Outcomes in Early Adulthood Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2009 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Behavior, Prosocial; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Poverty; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parenting Skills/Styles; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Poverty; School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; School Dropouts Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper, I use data on the children of female respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY-C) to construct a measure of childhood poverty that captures both the duration and timing of economic disadvantage at ages 0 through 14. I use this measure to examine how exposure to poverty throughout childhood influences educational attainment in early adulthood (ages 20-24). I also explore the extent to which a youth’s family, peer and school environment mediate the negative effects of poverty. Consistent with previous research, my findings suggest that exposure to persistent and long term childhood poverty significantly reduces educational attainment, particularly for females, even when mediating family, peer and school contexts are considered. However, early childhood poverty does not affect educational attainment as young adults who escape poverty by age 5 do not differ significantly from those with no poverty experience. My results also suggest that contextual factors mediate the effect of poverty exposure on educational attainment in early adulthood, and that family processes reduce the effects of poverty experience on educational outcomes more than peer or school environment. |
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Mykyta, Laryssa. "The Timing of Childhood Poverty, Contextual Risk and Educational Outcomes in Early Adulthood." Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2009. |