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Showing 1 to 20 of 483 for “"educational attainment"”.
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Educational Attainment among High-Risk Teenage Mothers
Decreased educational attainment has been associated with numerous factors such as teenage pregnancy, repeat pregnancy, risky sexual behavior, substance use, depression, and parental distress. Educational attainment was examined among a group of predominantly Mexican American teenage mothers who …
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Black-white differences in postsecondary educational attainment
… High School and Beyond to examine the process of educational attainment among whites and blacks and the extent which the process varies by the presence or absence of father in the household. Structural models were used to estimate the total effect of personal characteristic variables such as …
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Variations in Educational Attainment Among DIfferent Latino Subgroups
… and to determine if there are variations in educational attainment among the different Latino subgroups. This study aims to discover if these propositions are true by analyzing the High School and Beyond data set available through the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social …
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Food choices of young women with lower educational attainment
… government recommendations. Women of lower educational attainment ate the poorest quality diets. The current study aimed to understand why women of lower educational attainment have less balanced diets than women of higher educational attainment, and how we can use this knowledge to develop …
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Parental Involvement, Academic Motivation, and Educational Attainment among Latinx Students
… engagement, college enrollment, and degree attainment. Additionally, it also explores how these relationships vary by students’ gender and immigration generation status. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, which included Latinx students (n = 2,217) and their parents …
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Exploring Schooling and Educational Attainment through the Experiences of Homeless Youth
… impacts a young persons academic engagement and attainment. Education is a topic that remains at the core of many debates regarding young people, and is central to our understanding of what can lead to better employment and economic opportunities and overall well-being. However, youth who …
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Impact of educational attainment before diagnosis on functioning level after diagnosis
… illness (n = 122), looking for the number of educational years each individual completed as well as the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scores. The average current GAF scores were 47.5 for those with elementary school experience only, 48.5 for middle school, 51.14 for high school, and …
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Gender inequality in educational attainment and reading performance: A contextual approach
Contains fulltext : 168827.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Educational attainment in second generation immigrants : creating context for predicting college graduation.
Educational attainment is a commonly used variable when looking at outcomes of immigration in the United States. This paper contributes to educational and immigrant research in three ways. First, this paper will account for several dimensions of influence when predicting educational attainment. …
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The Impact of Child Support Payments on the Educational Attainment of Children
… in a female-headed family--the effect on the educational attainment of children. This study also examines how the receipt of child support affects the educational attainment of children. The theoretical framework for this study draws on two areas: human capital acquisition and household …
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Projecting fertility by educational attainment: proof of concept of a new approach
… education level are then weighted by the IIASA educational attainment distributions to get the national fertility rates. These national fertility rates are in turn validated against the WPP fertility rates to evaluate how good the proposed method works. Fertility is high among the less educated …
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Girl interrupted! The impact of child marriage on women's educational attainment in Zambia
… investigates the effects of child marriage on educational outcomes for women in Zambia. Adopting an instrumental variable methodology to account for endogeneity and reverse causality, this paper explores whether marrying below the age of 18 disrupts educational attainment and, consequently, …
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Family and Schooling Effects on Educational Attainment: Great Britain and the United States Compared
… for social mobility, andknowledge about the educational attainment process is critical to understandinginequality. In this dissertation, I study how key family characteristics and earlyeducational accomplishments affect educational attainment as youths mature into middleadulthood. Using data …
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Three Essays on the Evolution of the Determinants of Educational Attainment and its Consequences
… determinants of education, their effects on the educational outcome, and the overall effect of education on the lifetime consequences. The first chapter focuses on the inequality of educational opportunity across different demographic factors. This chapter employs a broader set of social factors …
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