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Cameron, Margaux; Johnson, Ruby; Lacy, T. Austin; Wu, Joanna; Siegel, Peter; Holley, Jordan; Wine, Jennifer; Hunt-White, Tracy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
This First Look publication provides the first results of the 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20), the most comprehensive national study of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. This report includes information for about 80,800 undergraduate students and 19,700 graduate students attending 2,200…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Institutional Characteristics
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 families in 11 cultural groups in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines,…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Socioeconomic Status
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Shaw, Sara; Alvira-Hammond, Marta; Hazelwood, Ashley M.; DeMand, Alex – Child Trends, 2021
This brief is the third in a series examining timely topics that are relevant to Black families and children in the United States. It presents recent data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black families' access to stable housing in the United States and, at the local level, in Newark, New Jersey. First, it highlights national findings…
Descriptors: African American Family, African American Children, Racial Bias, Housing
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; Goodman, Joshua; Hurwitz, Michael; Kovac, Dejan; Mulhern, Christine; Neilson, Christopher; Smith, Jonathan – Centre for Economic Performance, 2020
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Siblings, Family Influence, College Choice
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Ye, Lu; Yuan, Yuqing – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
Non-cognitive factors are considered critical aspects in shaping students' academic achievement. This study aims to analyze and explore the mechanisms of the influence of noncognitive factors on 15-year-old students' abilities in China and the United States. Based on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 education dataset,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela – World Journal of Education, 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of Household Income and Expenditure Surveys for both countries spanning around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expenditures, Investment, Skill Development
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Mann, Bryan A.; Smith, William C.; Baker, David P. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2016
Research about innovation adoption underplays the role of educational attainment in the individual consumption of technology; consequently, past research underestimates the importance education plays independent of wealth in diffusion, particularly as absolute levels of formal education rise worldwide. Using data from the Programme for…
Descriptors: Internet, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Attainment, Adults
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Yang, Hongwei; Wang, Yingqi – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2018
An online survey of 374 US college students was conducted in April, 2015 to examine whether and how subjective norm, direct and indirect experiences related to China, their perceptions of China (China's country reputation), and media coverage of China influence their interests of studying in China. Statistical results show that their subjective…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Reputation
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Dearing, Eric; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Mykletun, Arnstein; Toppelberg, Claudio O. – AERA Open, 2018
While most early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs taken to scale in the United States have served socially disadvantaged 3- to 5-years-olds, Norway scaled up universal ECEC from age 1. We investigated the consequences of Norway's universal ECEC scale-up for children's early language skills, exploiting variation in ECEC coverage across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
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Ghazarian, Peter G. – Journal of International Students, 2016
In this study, the author focuses on the issue of country image in destination choice. To examine the relationship between these two variables, the study tests whether mainland Chinese who favor a destination as their ideal first choice for study abroad have a significantly more positive view of that destination's country image than their…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Correlation
Marchant, Gregory J.; McCreary, John J. – Online Submission, 2018
This report investigates factors relevant to choosing locations conducive to both attainment and maintenance of a teaching career. In addition to salary and cost of living, the investigators compiled and ranked variables related to family, such as parental income and education, and differences in political structures that affect careers in…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Educational Attainment, Parent Background, Costs
Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Barnett, W. Steven; Hodges, Katherine S.; Garver, Karin A.; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Gardiner, Beth Ann; Jost, Tracy Merriman – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
The "State of Preschool 2022" annual report covers the 2021-2022 school year and is NIEER's 20th report tracking preschool enrollment, funding, and policies state-by-state. This report focuses on the recovery since the 2020-2021 school year, where we are compared to before the pandemic, where we've come over the last two decades, and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Policy, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
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Clark, Brian; Shi, Ying – AERA Open, 2020
This article shows that the traditional narrative of Black-White high school graduation gaps is inverted among economically disadvantaged female students. Two nationally representative surveys and statewide administrative data demonstrate that low-income White females graduate at rates 5 to 6 percentage points lower than Black peers despite having…
Descriptors: African American Students, White Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Females
Wood, Stephen; Fraga, Lynette; McCready, Michelle – Child Care Aware of America, 2014
Eleven million children younger than age five are in some form of child care in the United States. The "Parents and the High Cost of Child Care: 2014 Report" summarizes the cost of child care across the country, examines the importance of child care as a workforce support and as an early learning program, and explores the effect of high…
Descriptors: Child Care, Costs, Parents, Family Income
Kansas Association of School Boards, 2019
For many years, Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) has provided information on Kansas' rankings compared to other states on a variety of student outcome measures. In addition, KASB annually determines "peer states" which are most similar to Kansas in terms of student characteristics, adult population characteristics and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Postsecondary Education
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