Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways
Inequality research has found that a college education can ameliorate intergenerational disparities in economic outcomes. Much attention has focused on how family resources impact academic achievement, though research continues to identify how mechanisms related to social class and structural contex...
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| description | Inequality research has found that a college education can ameliorate intergenerational disparities in economic outcomes. Much attention has focused on how family resources impact academic achievement, though research continues to identify how mechanisms related to social class and structural contexts drive college attendance patterns. Using the Education Longitudinal Study and multilevel modeling techniques, this study uniquely highlights how extracurricular activities relate to family socioeconomic status and school contexts to influence college attendance. Altogether, sport and non-sport extracurricular participation, college expectations, and academic achievement scores, situated within unique school contexts that are driven by residential social class segregation, contribute to the cumulative advantages of children from higher SES families. The results from this study show that these cumulative advantages are positively associated with college attendance and an increased likelihood of attending a more selective school. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9806ae7cd30a47ff9886a386e1066aef2023-04-14T05:31:39ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01184Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathwaysJames TompsettChris KnoesterInequality research has found that a college education can ameliorate intergenerational disparities in economic outcomes. Much attention has focused on how family resources impact academic achievement, though research continues to identify how mechanisms related to social class and structural contexts drive college attendance patterns. Using the Education Longitudinal Study and multilevel modeling techniques, this study uniquely highlights how extracurricular activities relate to family socioeconomic status and school contexts to influence college attendance. Altogether, sport and non-sport extracurricular participation, college expectations, and academic achievement scores, situated within unique school contexts that are driven by residential social class segregation, contribute to the cumulative advantages of children from higher SES families. The results from this study show that these cumulative advantages are positively associated with college attendance and an increased likelihood of attending a more selective school.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10089351/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | James Tompsett Chris Knoester Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways PLoS ONE |
| title | Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways |
| title_full | Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways |
| title_fullStr | Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways |
| title_full_unstemmed | Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways |
| title_short | Family socioeconomic status and college attendance: A consideration of individual-level and school-level pathways |
| title_sort | family socioeconomic status and college attendance a consideration of individual level and school level pathways |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10089351/?tool=EBI |
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