All Wealth Is Not Created Equal: Race, Parental Net Worth, and Children’s Achievement

Using data from the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort, spanning 1986 to 2014, we investigated whether White, Black, and Hispanic children whose parents had the same wealth, measured as net worth, have equal math and reading achievement trajectories from age five throu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jordan A. Conwell, Leafia Zi Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2021-08-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/7/3/101