Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Carolina Arteaga
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Standard Framework

Abstract This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been convicted of a crime in Colombia, and link the educational attainment of their children. I exploit exogenous variation resulting from the random assignment of judges, and extend the standard framework to incorporate both conviction and incarceration decisions. I show that the effect of incarceration for a given conviction threshold can be identified. My results indicate that parental incarceration increases educational attainment by 0.78 years for the children of convicted parents on the margin of incarceration.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador R. Vazquez ◽  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Family Participation ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

Parental involvement in children’s education is commonly accepted as beneficial. However, family social class plays a crucial role in the efficacy of homework help. In a comparative case study, a low-income immigrant family from Mexico and a middle-income family in Los Angeles were observed helping their children with math homework and were asked questions about goals, tutoring strategies, and beliefs about learning. Qualitative analysis focused on two effective teaching methods: scaffolding and productive struggle. The low-income mother with little formal education provided direct help rather than a scaffold, and disapproved of hard problems. However, an older sibling with more education than her mother used scaffolding and believed that difficult problems aid learning. In these respects, she resembled the college-educated middle-income mother. The sister exemplifies how older siblings in immigrant families provide bridges to educational achievement for younger siblings. We suggest effective ways for schools to involve parents who lacked educational opportunity themselves to participate in the education of their children.   How to cite this article: Vazquez, S. R., & Greenfield, P. M. (2021). The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 30(1), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v30n1.89185

scholarly journals Does Familial Educational Attainment Predict Sleep Quality Trajectories for Older Adults in Mexico?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 594-594
Author(s):  
Margarita Osuna ◽  
Connor Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Quality Sleep ◽  
Aging Study ◽  
Children’S Education

Abstract Researchers have stressed the importance of sleep for healthy aging and longevity. However, there are few population-level studies of sleep quality focusing on older adults in Latin America and Mexico in particular. The objective of this study is to examine the associations between personal and familial educational attainment on sleep quality. We utilized data from the 2001-2015 Mexican Health and Aging Study (N=4,164; MHAS). Our sample consisted of older adults (aged 50+), married with children. We predicted longitudinal reports of restless sleep across four waves of MHAS using mixed-effects logistic regression. We found that lower levels of respondents’ education, their spouses’ education, and their children’s’ education were associated with lower levels of sleep quality. When the measures of education were included in the same model, one’s own education and children’s education remained significantly associated with quality sleep. Our results stress the importance of familial educational attainment for sleep in Mexico.

Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather B. Weiss ◽  
Ellen Mayer ◽  
Holly Kreider ◽  
Margaret Vaughan ◽  
Eric Dearing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

scholarly journals PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT PETANI KELAPA TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN TINGGI ANAK DI KECAMATAN SIBERUT BARAT, KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
A. Tisnawati Tapondhadhai ◽  
Ansofino Ansofino ◽  
Ranti Nazmi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Good System ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Good Relation

Education is one of social institution that has important role to enhance prestiges and human's dignities. Education helps people to build a good relation each others. Higher education usually indicate better social life. Therefore, parents have the responsibility to their children's education. Government also have responsibility to make a good system that agree with development of various fields. Coconut farming communities generally have low income, but they have good motivation to send their children to university.This study aims to know  the motivation of farmers to provide a better education for their children and also some of  factors that influences their successful studies. Based on this study, to get a better social life than their parents is the motivation of coconut farmers that their children get higher education. Meanwhile, the success rate of farmer's son graduated depending on the favorable situation to supporting them to learn better and also good financial supports from their families during the studiesPendidikan merupakan suatu lembaga sosial dalam membentuk individu dalam bersosialisasi untuk meningkatkan harkat martabat manusia. Pendidikan merupakan tanggung jawab masyarakat sebagai orang tua dan pemerintah, maka itu pendidikan perlu menyesuaikan dengan tuntutan pembangunan yang memerlukan berbagai jenis keterampilan dari berbagai bidang. Masyarakat petani kelapa pada umumnya memiliki penghasilan yang rendah, akan tetapi mereka memiliki motivasi yang kuat agar anak-anak mereka bisa mengecap pendidikan sampai ke Perguruan Tinggi.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui motivasi petani untuk memberikan pendidikan yang lebih baik untuk anaknya dan juga beberapa faktor yang mempengaruhi keberhasilan dari anak petani untuk mewujudkan cita-citanya tersebut. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, ditemukan bahwa motivasi petani ingin anaknya mengecap pendidikan hingga perguruan tinggi adalah agar anak mereka memperoleh kehidupan yang lebih baik. Sementara itu, faktor yang mendukung keberhasilan anak petani dalam menyelesaikan pendidikan mereka di perguruan tinggi adalah situasi kondusif yang mendukung mereka untuk belajar dengan lebih baik dan juga dukungan ekonomi yang baik dari keluarga selama menempuh pendidikan. 

scholarly journals Survival Strategy for Lokan Seekers in Paya Pasir Village, Kec. Marelan, Medan, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramadani Lubis ◽  
Ichwan Azhari ◽  
Ratih Baiduri
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Structural Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Children’S Education

This study dealt with Survival Strategy for Lokan Seekers in Paya Pasir Village, Kec. Marelan, Medan, Indonesia. This situation explains that the number of women in poverty is still high. The high rate of poverty involving women certainly does not happen on its own, there are many things that must be explored and investigated and discussed about what factors make women and poverty as difficult to reduce and eliminate. The research used was qualitative research with an ethnographic approach. Spradley (1997: 3) argues that ethnography is the work of describing a culture. The main purpose of this activity is to understand a view of life from the perspective of the native population. In result, For parents, especially those who have a low income level, it should make children's education the first, because to improve the standard of living can only be done with education. Good children's education will produce changes in life. Besides that, a child should not be taught or supervised in fulfilling the family's economic needs, so that the child can be more focused in taking his education. With this education, a child can compete in the world of structural work, so as to reduce poverty as in the area of Paya Pasir Village.

scholarly journals Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-405
Author(s):  
Esra Kose ◽  
Elira Kuka ◽  
Na’ama Shenhav
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Education Spending ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Investment In Children ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in US suffrage laws, we show that exposure to suffrage during childhood led to large increases in educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We also find that suffrage led to higher earnings alongside education gains, although not for Southern Blacks. Using newly digitized data, we show that education increases are primarily explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed. (JEL H75, I21, I22, J13, J15, J16, N32)

Involving Low-Income Parents in the Schools: Communitycentric Strategies for School Counselors

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0701100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Van Velsor ◽  
Graciela L. Orozco
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
The Relationship

Low-income parents participate less in schools than higher-income parents despite the benefits of parent involvement. Barriers that low-income parents face suggest that schools must develop a new approach to engaging these parents. School counselors can play a leadership role in strengthening the relationship between schools and low-income parents by implementing community-centered strategies for parent involvement. These strategies respect community culture and parents’ abilities to contribute to their children's education.

scholarly journals Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Parental Divorce Differentially Impacts Children's Educational Attainment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Brand ◽  
Ravaris Moore ◽  
Xi Song ◽  
Yu Xie
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Parental Divorce ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Family Disruption ◽  
Psychosocial Skills ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Lower Educational Attainment

A substantial literature suggests that family disruption leads to lower educational attainment among children. We focus on how the effects of parental divorce on children’s education differ across families with varying likelihoods of disruption. Using U.S. panel data, with careful attention to the assumptions and methods needed to estimate total and mediating causal effects, we find a significant effect of parental divorce on educational attainment among children whose parents were unlikely to divorce, for whom divorce was thus a relative shock. We find no effect among children whose parents were likely to divorce and for whom divorce was one of many disadvantages, and thus less economically and socially disruptive. We also find that the observed effect of divorce on children’s education is strongly mediated by post-divorce family income. Children’s psychosocial skills also explain a portion of the effect among children with a low propensity for parental divorce, while cognitive skills play no role in explaining the negative association between divorce and children’s education. Our results suggest that family disruption does not uniformly disrupt children’s attainment.

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