ERIC Number: EJ1447205
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 42
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1934-5747
EISSN: EISSN-1934-5739
Three-Year Outcomes for Low-Income Parents of Young Children in a Two-Generation Education Program
Elise Chor; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Teresa Eckrich Sommer; Terri Sabol; Lauren Tighe; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Amanda Morris; Christopher King
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, v17 n4 p936-977 2024
Increasingly, parents of young children need postsecondary credentials to compete in the labor market and meet basic family needs. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the effects of Career"Advance," a two-generation education intervention that offers postsecondary career training in healthcare for parents paired with Head Start for children. Overall, we find that Career"Advance" promotes low-income parents' educational advancement during the first three years after program entry, with weaker evidence of benefits to career progress and psychological wellbeing, and no evidence of economic gains. The two-generation program promotes greater educational and career advancement among parents without postsecondary credentials at baseline, than for parents who began the program with postsecondary credentials. In contrast, exploratory analyses suggest that parents entering the program with postsecondary credentials experienced benefits to some individual markers of economic and psychological wellbeing within three years.
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Parents, Young Children, Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Postsecondary Education, Job Training, Allied Health Occupations Education, Program Effectiveness, Well Being, Promotion (Occupational), Wages, Mental Health, Socioeconomic Status, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families (ACF) (DHHS)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma (Tulsa)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Head Start
Grant or Contract Numbers: 90FX00100; 90PH0020
Data File: URL: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.17605/OSF.IO/5NVM3