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Health and the Educational Attainment of Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY97
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Haas, Steven A.; Fosse, Nathan Edward – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2008
This article examines the mechanisms linking health to the educational attainment of adolescents. In particular, it investigates the role of cognitive/academic achievement and a variety of psychosocial adjustment factors in explaining this relationship. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97), we estimate…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Health
Capital and Context: Using Social Capital at Home and at School to Predict Child Social Adjustment
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Dufur, Mikaela J.; Parcel, Toby L.; McKune, Benjamin A. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2008
Research examining the influence of social relationships on child outcomes has seldom examined how individuals derive social capital from more than one context and the extent to which they may benefit from the capital derived from each. We address this deficit through a study of child behavior problems. We hypothesize that children derive social…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models, Child Behavior, Social Adjustment
Poverty and the Development of African American Children: Testing an Adaptation of McLoyd's Theoretical Model with the NLSY.
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Nievar, M. Angela; Luster, Tom – 2003
Based on McLoyd's (1990) model of African American children's development, this study examined the linkages between poverty, maternal psychological distress, marital conflict, the home environment, and children's outcomes among a sample of 805 African American 4- to 9-year-olds whose families were interviewed in 1992 as part of the National…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Black Youth