Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
type: CreativeWork
description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: Chavez, Yolanda
keywords: Academic Performance, Economic Disadvantage, Education, Sociology, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Educational Methods, Educational Sociology, Inequality and Stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Culture
date published: 2022-05-01T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:58:26Z
provider: University of Arkansas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Arkansas