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Poverty, Delinquency, and Educational Attainment: Cumulative Disadvantage or Disadvantage Saturation? JCPR Working Paper.

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Title: Poverty, Delinquency, and Educational Attainment: Cumulative Disadvantage or Disadvantage Saturation? JCPR Working Paper.
Language: English
Authors: Hannon, Lance, Joint Center for Poverty Research, IL.
Availability: Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60208. Tel: 773-702-2287; Fax: 773-702-0926; e-mail: jcpr@uchicago.edu; Web site: http://www.jcpr.org.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 30
Publication Date: 2003
Document Type: Reports - Research
Descriptors: Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment, Middle Class Students, Poverty, Secondary Education, Socioeconomic Influences, Socioeconomic Status
Assessment and Survey Identifiers: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Abstract: Data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) were analyzed to test two competing hypotheses regarding how poverty affects the relationship between delinquency and educational attainment. The cumulative disadvantage perspective argues that poor youth suffer greater consequences for their involvement in delinquency than middle and upper class youth in terms of their educational attainment. Contrary to this perspective, the disadvantage saturation thesis predicts that delinquency is less consequential for the educational attainment of poor youth than it is for non-poor youth. Results from OLS (ordinary least squares) and logistic regression analyses support the latter hypothesis. Delinquency, when defined in the context of school discipline, had a stronger detrimental effect on educational attainment for middle and upper class youth than it did for low-income adolescents. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed. (Contains 41 references.) (Author/SM)
Entry Date: 2003
Accession Number: ED475200
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) were analyzed to test two competing hypotheses regarding how poverty affects the relationship between delinquency and educational attainment. The cumulative disadvantage perspective argues that poor youth suffer greater consequences for their involvement in delinquency than middle and upper class youth in terms of their educational attainment. Contrary to this perspective, the disadvantage saturation thesis predicts that delinquency is less consequential for the educational attainment of poor youth than it is for non-poor youth. Results from OLS (ordinary least squares) and logistic regression analyses support the latter hypothesis. Delinquency, when defined in the context of school discipline, had a stronger detrimental effect on educational attainment for middle and upper class youth than it did for low-income adolescents. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed. (Contains 41 references.) (Author/SM)