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- Title
Drop Out and 'Disconnected' Young Adults: Examining the Impact of Neighborhood and School Contexts.
- Authors
Rendón, Maria
- Abstract
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) this study compares if and how neighborhood effects on the likelihood to drop out and be 'disconnected' from school and work in young adulthood change when schools are taken into account. As widely documented, I find that neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with dropping out, but this effect is mediated by schools with high numbers of Latino or Black students. I find neighborhood socioeconomic status is not associated with being disconnected, yet, attending schools with high numbers of Black students is. This research draws attention for the need to account for neighborhood and school effects simultaneously to better understand contextual effects and to more carefully conceptualize how neighborhood and schools work together to produce these outcomes disproportionately impacting racial and ethnic minorities.
- Subjects
MINORITY high school students; LATIN American students; AFRICAN American students; RACIAL minorities
- Publication
Urban Review, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11256-013-0251-8