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A Better Kind of High: How Religious Commitment Reduces Drug Use among Poor Urban Teens. CRRUCS Report.
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Johnson, Byron R. – 2000
Using a review of the literature and national longitudinal data on 1,087 youth aged 11 to 17, this study investigated whether religious commitment reduces drug use among poor urban teenagers. Standard multivariate statistical analysis of data from the National Youth Survey (1997) showed that inner-city adolescents who were more religious were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Church Role, Drug Use, Longitudinal Studies
Youth Living Arrangements, Economic Independence, and the Role of Labor Market Changes: A Cohort Analysis from the Early 1970s to the Late 1980s. Discussion Paper.
Haveman, Robert; Knight, Brian – 1999
Between the later 1960s and early 1990s, young workers experienced declining average real wages and increasing labor market inequality. High-skilled youths--those with a college degree--fare better in this new economy relative to youths with few skills and little formal education. This paper studies two separate, but related, indirect effects of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Attainment, Employees, Income
Do Rural Youth Attain Their Educational Goals?
Blackwell, Debra L.; McLaughlin, Diane K. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1999
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data were used to analyze the educational goals and attainment of rural and urban youth; boys and girls; and advantaged, average, and disadvantaged youth. Boys and girls had similar educational aspirations and attainment, but family background characteristics mattered more to girls, especially rural girls.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Advantaged, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment