Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
Cultural explanations of how familial resource inequality negatively impacts the academic well-being of a Latino/a child saturate the literature. This study examines the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment through Family Stress Process Theory, providing a contextual analysis of resource instability. The additional myriad of legal and social constraints that parental nativity provides for family members can moderate this relationship. Data was drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal measure of U.S. couples and their children in 20 large U.S. cities. Regression models indicate the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment of Latino/a youth to be significant in suspension rates when interacted with poverty status.
Academic Performance, Economic Disadvantage, Education, Sociology, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Educational Methods, Educational Sociology, Inequality and Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Culture
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